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STATE OF WYOMING
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
1 AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting
2 physicians from performing procedures for children related
3 to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing
4 exceptions; providing definitions; specifying
5 applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for
6 effective dates.
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8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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10 Section 1. W.S. 35-4-1001 is created to read:
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12 ARTICLE 10
13 GENDER-RELATED PROCEDURES
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1 35-4-1001. Gender reassignment procedures for
2 children prohibited.
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4 (a) As used in this section:
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6 (i) "Child" means a person who is younger than
7 eighteen (18) years of age;
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9 (ii) "Physician" means any person licensed to
10 practice medicine in this state by the state board of
11 medicine under the Medical Practice Act.
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13 (b) No physician shall, for purposes of transitioning
14 a child's biological sex to a sex different than the sex
15 assigned at birth as determined by the sex organs,
16 chromosomes and endogenous profiles of the child, or for
17 purposes of affirming the child's perception of the child's
18 sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's
19 biological sex:
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21 (i) Perform a surgery that sterilizes the child,
22 including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy,
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1 oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy,
2 phalloplasty and vaginoplasty;
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4 (ii) Perform a mastectomy.
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6 (c) This section shall not apply to:
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8 (i) Procedures or treatments that are performed
9 with the consent of the child's parent or guardian and are
10 for a child who is born with a medically verifiable genetic
11 disorder of sex development, including but not limited to
12 46, XX chromosomes with virilization, 46, XY with
13 undervirilization or both ovarian and testicular tissue;
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15 (ii) Any procedure or treatment that is
16 performed with the consent of the child's parent or
17 guardian and is for a child with medically verifiable
18 central precocious puberty.
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20 Section 2. W.S. 35-4-1001, as created by section 1 of
21 this act, shall apply only to conduct or procedures
22 occurring on and after the effective date of this act.
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1 Section 3. The state board of medicine may promulgate
2 any rules necessary to implement this act.
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4 Section 4.
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6 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this
7 section, this act is effective July 1, 2024.
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9 (b) Sections 3 and 4 of this act are effective
10 immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a
11 bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of
12 the Wyoming Constitution.
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14 (END)
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