Trevor Lee is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives from the 16th district. He assumed office on January 1,2023.[2][3] He is known for his legislation attacking the LGBTQ community and his association with the alt-right "DezNat" movement.[4]
Lee was a sponsor of HB77,[6] a bill that Lee said "would ban Pride flags from schools" and local government buildings,while allowing Nazi and Confederate flags to be displayed in Utah classrooms for educational purposes.[7][8][9] The bill became law without Gov. Spencer Cox's signature and went into effect May 7,2025. The law places responsibility for enforcement upon the state auditor.[10]
Lee was a co-sponsor on the 2025 HB81[11] bill that banned fluoride in public water systems.[12] This law will make Utah the first state to ban fluoride in drinking water. The bill was opposed by the American Dental Association. Opponents of the bill noted that research has found that water fluoridation prevents about 25% of tooth decay,[13] and warned that the bill may disproportionately affect low-income residents.
Controversial 2026 legislation
Lee has sponsored HB 183 as of January 2026. The bill would:
Strip out the word “gender” and replace it with “sex” in many areas of state law, including in the state’s anti-discrimination protections for housing, employment and crime victims.
Ban changes to the sex designation field of a birth certificate.
Require state agencies when making administrative rules to refer to “biological sex” by using the term sex instead of gender.
Ban school districts and certain providers licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services from assigning a transgender employee to a role that interacts with children.
In child custody proceedings, require a court to view a parent’s non-support of a transgender child’s gender identity as a “factor to favor awarding custody to that parent.”
Remove “gender identity” from a provision that allows the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles to refuse personalized license plates that disparage a list of groups (which also currently includes race, religion, sexual orientation, ect).[14]
Additionally, Lee has sponsored HB 287 as of January 2026. The bill's highligths include:
"Repeal[ing] the driving privilege card program prohibits the Driver License Division from issuing a driving privilege card on or after May 6, 2026;
makes technical changes throughout the Utah Code related to the repeal of the driving privilege card program;
requires law enforcement to report to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security if an individual who is unlawfully present in the United states is involved in a motor vehicle accident"[15]
Twitter account controversy
In 2022, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Lee was behind a Twitter account that promoted election and coronavirus conspiracy theories and attacked women and LGBTQ individuals.[4] These events occurred after Lee had previously made transphobic comments and used a slur for transgender people on a Utah podcast, for which he had apologized and "erased it from [his] vocabulary."[16]
Pride Month controversy
In June 2025, during Pride Month, the Utah Mammoth NHL hockey team posted a message on X that said "Happy Pride!" with the team logo rendered in the colors of the Pride Flag. Lee replied to the tweet, claiming "Utahns overwhelmingly don't support pride month." He then said to "watch for some significant legislation this next session that pushes back onto these woke groups!" When KSL-TV requested an interview with Lee, Lee declined and would not discuss the legislation, saying "you'll have to wait and see" and that the Utah Legislature "will be putting a stop to entities that will take taxpayer money from pushing political agendas." In a later tweet, he claimed "'Pride' is about promoting the social acceptance of gay sex, transgender child mutilation and various other forms of iniquity. Its premise is that they are not just not sinful, but worthy of celebration."[17]
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