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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB3399Relating to the provision of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures or treatments.
Extends the existing ban on gender-transition surgeries, mastectomies, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and removal of healthy tissue from minors to all persons of any age, while adding funding bans for such care and narrowing some exceptions, so less access to gender-transition care.
For the purpose of transitioning a person's biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the person or affirming the person's perception of the person's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the person's biological sex, a physician or health care provider may not knowingly: (1) perform a surgery that sterilizes the person, including: ... (3) provide, prescribe, administer, or dispense any of the following prescription drugs that induce transient or permanent infertility: ...
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Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends an existing Texas law (S.B. 14) that banned gender-transition procedures and treatments for minors by removing all age-specific language (striking 'child,' 'for certain children,' and 'on certain children' throughout), thereby extending the prohibitions on surgeries, mastectomies, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and removal of healthy tissue to adults as well. It also broadens the public-funding and Medicaid-reimbursement bans from care provided to children to care provided to any 'person.' Exceptions for precocious puberty, disorders of sex development, and certain pre-6
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