Tom Whatley voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Establishes a Felony for Doctors that Perform Gender Reassignment Treatment to Individuals Under the Age of 19
Title: Establishes a Felony for Doctors that Perform Gender Reassignment Treatment to Individuals Under the Age of 19
Vote to pass a bill that establishes a felony for doctors that perform gender confirming treatment on any individual under the age of 19.
Defines “sex” as the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual’s sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles (Sec. 4).
Prohibits engaging in, counseling, or making a referral for any of the following practices upon a minor if the practice is for affirming the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex when that perception is inconsistent with the minor’s biological sex (Sec. 4):
Prescribing, dispensing, administering, or supplying puberty-blocking medication;
Prescribing, dispensing, administering, or supplying supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or other androgens to females;
Prescribing, dispensing, administering, or supplying supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males;
Performing surgeries that sterilize, including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, and penectomy;
Performing surgeries that artificially construct tissues with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the individual’s biological sex, including metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty; and
Removing any healthy or non-disease body part or tissue.
Specifies that the above highlight does not apply to a procedure undertaken to treat a minor born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including either (Sec. 4):
An individual born with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous; or
An individual whom a physician has diagnosed with a disorder of sexual development.
Classifies a violation of this act as a Class C felony (Sec. 4).
Prohibits a nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, or other administrative official at a public or private school attended by a minor to (Sec. 5):
Encourage or coerce a minor to withhold from the minor’s parent or legal guardian that the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor’s sex; and
Withholding from a minor’s parent or legal guardian information related to a minor’s perception that his or her gender or sex is consistent with his or her sex.
Title: Establishes a Felony for Doctors that Perform Gender Reassignment Treatment to Individuals Under the Age of 19