Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits gender confirmation treatment for individuals under 18.

Highlights:

• Prohibits gender confirmation treatment for individuals under 18 and specifies that individuals found to have engaged in the practice, or helped a minor leave the state for gender confirmation treatment guilty of a felony, and imprisoned for a term of no more than life (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that gener confirmation treatment shall include, but not be limited to, surgeries on a minor altering their biological sex or steralizing reproductive organs, and adminstering the following types of medication (Sec. 1):

• puberty blocking medications that stop or delay normal puberty;

• supraphysiological doses of testosterone to a female; or

• supraphysiological doses of estrogen to a male.

• Exempts cases of medically verifiable genetic disorders from the aforementioned prohibitions (Sec. 1).

• Establishes that this act shall take effect January 1, 2023 (Sec. 2).

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