HUMANTHE RIGHTS & ACCESS FIELD GUIDE
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Explore civil rights and bodily autonomy across the United States—from gender and reproductive care to body modification, genetics, and emerging treatments.
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Hate & extremism awareness ↗01 / START WITH YOUR JURISDICTION
State law, federal law, local ordinances, and court orders can all matter. Select where the conduct or care occurs. Cross-state situations may involve more than one jurisdiction.
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02 / AWARENESS WITHOUT ALARMISM
Hateful speech, discriminatory conduct, threats, and hate crimes are different things. You do not have to determine the exact legal label before seeking help.
Offensive views can be constitutionally protected. Context matters: harassment, discrimination, stalking, or threats may violate a law or a platform’s rules even when a hate-crime charge does not apply.
DOJ: understand the distinction ↗Note the conduct, exact words, dates, location, and any indication of bias. Save original messages, URLs, screenshots, witnesses, and report numbers where safe. Separate what you observed from what you suspect.
DOJ: reporting guidance ↗Move away from escalating situations, seek a staffed or public place, and contact someone you trust. Do not confront, infiltrate, follow, or publicly identify a suspected extremist to gather evidence. Avoid reposting private identifying details.
Choose a reporting route ↓RESEARCH ORGANIZED HATE
Independent monitors document organizations, ideologies, and reported incidents. Their categories are research judgments, not criminal verdicts or government designations. An entry—or absence from a map—does not establish someone’s conduct or predict your personal risk.
Read each organization’s methodology, reporting period, and corrections. A political disagreement, religious identity, or unpopular opinion alone is not evidence that a person belongs to an extremist group.
03 / GET THE REPORT TO THE RIGHT PLACE
This site does not receive reports or alert authorities. The links below take you to the organization that handles a report, complaint, or request for support.
Open the DOJ hate-crime reporting guide or the DOJ Civil Rights reporting portal. With JavaScript enabled, select a situation above for specialized routes.
Legal filing deadlines and agency jurisdiction vary. A platform report, police report, or message to a lawmaker may not preserve a civil claim or pause its deadline. Ask a qualified attorney or legal-aid organization promptly. Reports may be shared with other agencies; check confidentiality before submitting sensitive information.
04 / WHAT THE EVIDENCE CAN TELL YOU
Human Augments is a community project. This guide is not an ACLU service, a legal clinic, or an official government database. Linked organizations have not endorsed or reviewed this site.
All 50 states and DC have a directory entry. Depth differs by topic: state-specific summaries and policy trackers are available for LGBTQIA+ policy, reproductive rights, and body art; federal guides and selected state statutes cover genetics, stem cells, genome editing, and advanced treatment. Territories, tribal law, immigration status, military systems, local ordinances, individual court orders, and all insurance plans are not comprehensively covered.
Compiled 12 October 2026. “Source as of” records the publisher’s date when available, not a promise that a rule remains enforceable today. “Date not stated” means that no reliable publisher update date was identified. Research databases may stop at earlier legislative sessions. This is a published snapshot; updates are not automatic.
Missing entries mean unreviewed or unavailable information—not that conduct is permitted, prohibited, or unprotected. Open the linked official statute, agency guidance, and current litigation information before making a consequential decision.
A bill or legislative proposal is not an enacted law. Enactment, an effective date, and present enforceability are separate questions. A court can block only part of a rule or limit relief to particular parties. An appeal does not always pause enforcement.
Official statutory text and court orders are primary legal materials. Agency explainers and independent policy maps help you find and understand them; neither is a substitute for checking the controlling text. A state protection may not override federal rules, and city protections may differ from state law.
Permission to conduct research is not permission to sell a treatment. A trial listing is not FDA approval. Approval applies to a specific product and indication; it does not automatically cover every clinic, preparation, or use.
Somatic treatments affect the treated person; heritable embryo editing raises different legal and ethical questions. Expanded access and right-to-try have conditions and do not guarantee a manufacturer will supply a product, a clinician will provide it, or an insurer will pay.
Searches run in your browser without accounts, embedded maps, advertising scripts, or personal medical questionnaires. A shared state link or downloaded reference is yours to protect. Clear your browser’s history where needed; this site cannot erase it.
For individual legal advice, use your state’s legal-aid and ACLU affiliate links. ACLU intake does not guarantee representation. For a correction, contact Human Augments on Facebook with the state, topic, official source URL, and effective date. Do not post private medical records, addresses, or details of an active legal matter publicly.
Sources include official government materials and independent organizations’ own research. Category labels describe their role; they are not endorsements. Links open the original publisher.