Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits doctors from performing gender reassignment surgeries on children under the age of 16.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a medical professional from engaging in any of the following practices upon a minor under the age of 16, for the purpose of changing the minor’s perception of their sex, if that perception is inconsistent with the minor’s biological sex (Sec. 2):

• Performing the following surgeries, including:

• Castration; 

• Vasectomy; or

• Hysterectomy; 

• Performing a mastectomy; 

• Prescribing, dispensing, administering, or otherwise supplying the following medications:

• Puberty-blocking medication; 

• Supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females; 

• Supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males; or 

• Removing any otherwise healthy non-diseased body part or tissue.

• Specifies that a medical professional who is found guilty of the above prohibitions is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor (Sec. 2).

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