SB1586

THE CONTEXT: Laws 2022, Chapter 104 made it illegal for a physician to perform irreversible gender reassignment surgery on minors. Irreversible gender reassignment surgery is a medical procedure performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition, including any of the following: 1) penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty or vulvoplasty for biologically male patients or hysterectomy or ovariectomy for biologically female patients; 2) metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, scrotoplasty or implantation of erection or testicular prostheses for biologically female patients; or 3) augme...

WHAT THE BILL DID: of assisting an individual with a gender transition, including any of the following: 1) penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty or vulvoplasty for biologically male patients or hysterectomy or ovariectomy for biologically female patients; 2) metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, scrotoplasty or implantation of erection or testicular prostheses for biologically female patients; or 3) augmentation mammoplasty for biologically male patients and subcutaneous mastectomy for female patients ( A. R.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to give patients a defined set of rights and a clear informed-consent standard. It would make a healthcare professional or physician who provides or has provided a minor with a gender transition procedure strictly and personally liable for all costs associated with subsequent detransition procedures within 25 years after the gender transition procedure, and would also allow a person who undergoes a detransition procedure to bring a civil action before they reach 26 years old against a healthcare professional or physician for: a) the real value of the costs of any detransition procedure; b) any other appropriate relief; and c) attorney fees and costs, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.