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HB0063 • 2024

Sex and gender changes for children-prohibited.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing exceptions; providing definitions; specifying applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Children Healthcare Parental Rights
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Larsen, L
Last action
2024-02-14
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2024

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact types of treatments allowed for early puberty problems.

Bills About Gender Changes for Kids

This bill stops doctors from doing certain medical procedures on children under 18 related to gender transitioning and reassignment, with some exceptions.

What This Bill Does

  • It says that doctors cannot perform surgeries or other treatments on children under 18 years old to help them change their gender.
  • Specific types of surgeries are not allowed for kids, such as removing reproductive organs or changing body parts from one sex to another.
  • There are exceptions where parents can give permission if the child has a medical condition that needs treatment.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Doctors who treat children
  • Children under 18 years old
  • Parents and guardians of children

Terms To Know

Gender transitioning
The process where a person changes their gender to match how they feel inside, which might include medical treatments.
Physician
A doctor who is licensed to practice medicine in Wyoming.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This bill did not pass and was not signed into law.
  • The bill only applies if it becomes a law, which would be on July 1, 2024.

Bill History

  1. 2024-02-14 House

    H Failed Introduction 33-28-1-0-0

  2. 2024-01-24 House

    H Received for Introduction

  3. 2024-01-17 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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24LSO-0003
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0003
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0063

Sex and gender changes for children-prohibited.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Larsen, L and Stith and Senator(s) Baldwin, Dockstader and Schuler

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing exceptions; providing definitions; specifying applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 35
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1001 is created to read:

ARTICLE 10
GENDER
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RELATED PROCEDURES

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1001.

Gender reassignment procedures for children prohibited.

(a)

As used in this section:

(i)

"Child" means a person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age;

(ii)

"Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine in this state by the state board of medicine under the Medical Practice Act.

(b)

No physician shall, for purposes of transitioning a child's biological sex to a sex different than the sex assigned at birth as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes and endogenous profiles of the child, or for purposes of affirming the child's perception of the child's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's biological sex:

(i)

Perform a surgery that sterilizes the child, including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty and vaginoplasty;

(ii)

Perform a mastectomy.

(c)

This section shall not apply to:

(i)

Procedures or treatments that are performed with the consent of the child's parent or guardian and are for a child who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, including but not limited to 46, XX chromosomes with virilization, 46, XY with undervirilization or both ovarian and testicular tissue;

(ii)

Any procedure or treatment that is performed with the consent of the child's parent or guardian and is for a child with medically verifiable central precocious puberty.

Section 2.

W.S. 35
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1001, as created by section 1 of this act, shall apply only to conduct or procedures occurring on and after the effective date of this act.

Section 3.

The state board of medicine may promulgate any rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 4
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(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2024
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(b)

Sections 3 and 4 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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