Exempts the provision of gender-affirming care from applicability of certain criminal offenses in the Penal Code chapter on assaultive offenses, so more legal protection for providing such care.
This chapter does not apply to conduct charged as having been committed against an individual if the conduct is the provision of gender-affirming care, including the dispensation of a drug, in accordance with state and federal law and performed by a physician or other health care provider with the requisite consent.
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Defines 'gender-affirming care' as health care services provided for the purpose of affirming an individual's perception of the individual's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the individual's biological sex, which is used to create the exemption from criminal offenses.
In this section, "gender-affirming care" means health care services provided for the purpose of affirming an individual's perception of the individual's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the individual's biological sex.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds an exemption for gender-affirming care (including drugs) provided by a physician or provider with consent from applicability of Penal Code Chapter 22 criminal offenses, and defines the term; this expands legal access/protection for transgender healthcare while the definition itself is neutral in effect on the axis.
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