Signed by Governor Kay Ivey

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits treatment of gender dysphoria in children.

Highlights:

• Prohibits an individual from engaging in or causing the following practices from being performed on a minor if the practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minors perception of their gender or sex, if that appearance is inconsistent with the minors sex as defined in this act (Sec. 4):

• Prescribing or administering puberty blocking medication to stop or delay normal puberty;

• Prescribing or administering supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or other androgens to females;

• Prescribing or administering supraphysiologic doses of estrogen or other androgens to males;

• Performing surgeries that artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the individuals sex, including:

• Metoidioplasty;

• Phalloplasty; and

• Vaginoplasty.

• Removing any healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue, except for male circumcision.

• Specifies that the aforementioned provisions do not apply to a procedure undertaken to treat a minor born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development (Sec. 4).

• Prohibits a nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, or other administrative official at a public or private school attended by a minor from encouraging or coerce a minor to withhold from the minor’s parent or legal guardian the fact that the minor’s perception of their gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor’s sex (Sec. 5).

• Establishes that a violation of this act is a Class C felony (Sec. 5).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits treatment of gender dysphoria in children.

Highlights:

• Prohibits an individual from engaging in or causing the following practices from being performed on a minor if the practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minors perception of their gender or sex, if that appearance is inconsistent with the minors sex as defined in this act (Sec. 4):

• Prescribing or administering puberty blocking medication to stop or delay normal puberty;

• Prescribing or administering supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or other androgens to females;

• Prescribing or administering supraphysiologic doses of estrogen or other androgens to males;

• Performing surgeries that artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the individuals sex, including:

• Metoidioplasty;

• Phalloplasty; and

• Vaginoplasty.

• Removing any healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue, except for male circumcision.

• Specifies that the aforementioned provisions do not apply to a procedure undertaken to treat a minor born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development (Sec. 4).

• Prohibits a nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, or other administrative official at a public or private school attended by a minor from encouraging or coerce a minor to withhold from the minor’s parent or legal guardian the fact that the minor’s perception of their gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor’s sex (Sec. 5).

• Establishes that a violation of this act is a Class C felony (Sec. 5).

Full Bill Text