Text of FL H 935 (2021)
Youth Gender and Sexual Identity
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HB 935
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A bill to be entitled
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An act relating to youth gender and sexual identity;
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creating s. 456.0335, F.S.; providing a short title;
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defining the term "sex"; providing criminal penalties
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for health care practitioners who perform or cause
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specified practices to be performed on a minor under
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certain conditions; providing applicability; amending
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s. 1000.05, F.S.; providing an exception to
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participation in intramural athletics; amending s.
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1002.20, F.S.; prohibiting certain students from
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participating on specified high school athletic teams;
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providing an effective date.
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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Section 1. Section 456.0335, Florida Statutes, is created
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to read:
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456.0335 Vulnerable Child Protection Act.—
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(1) This section may be cited as the "Vulnerable Child
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Protection Act."
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(2) As used in this section, the term "sex" means the
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biological state of being female or male based on sex organs,
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chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles.
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(3) A health care practitioner who performs any of the
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following practices upon a minor, or who causes such practices
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to be performed upon a minor, for the purpose of attempting to
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change the minor's sex or for the purpose of affirming the
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minor's perception of the minor's sex if that perception is
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inconsistent with the minor's sex, commits a misdemeanor of the
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first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
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775.083:
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(a) Performing surgeries that sterilize, including
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castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy,
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metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty, and
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vaginoplasty;
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(b) Performing a mastectomy;
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(c) Administering, prescribing, or supplying the following
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medications that induce transient or permanent infertility:
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1. Puberty-blocking medication, which stops or delays
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normal puberty;
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2. Supraphysiologic doses of testosterone, to females; or
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3. Supraphysiologic doses of estrogen, to males; or
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(d) Removing any otherwise healthy or nondiseased body
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part or tissue.
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(4) This section does not apply to a health care
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practitioner acting in accordance with a good faith medical
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decision of a parent or guardian of a minor born with a
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medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development,
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including:
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(a) External biological sex characteristics that are
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unresolvably ambiguous, such as the minor being born with having
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46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with
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undervirilization, or both ovarian and testicular tissue.
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(b) A sexual development disorder whereby a physician has
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determined through genetic testing that the minor does not have
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the normal chromosome structure for a male or a female.
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Section 2. Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (3) of
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section 1000.05, Florida Statutes, to read:
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1000.05 Discrimination against students and employees in
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the Florida K-20 public education system prohibited; equality of
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access required.—
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(3)
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(f) Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply to the eligibility
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of students to participate on athletic teams designated for
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girls only as described in s. 1002.20(17)(a)2.
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Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (17) of section
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1002.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
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1002.20 K-12 student and parent rights.—Parents of public
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school students must receive accurate and timely information
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regarding their child's academic progress and must be informed
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of ways they can help their child to succeed in school. K-12
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students and their parents are afforded numerous statutory
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rights including, but not limited to, the following:
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(17) ATHLETICS; PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL.—
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(a) Eligibility.—
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1. Eligibility requirements for all students participating
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in high school athletic competition must allow a student to be
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immediately eligible in the school in which he or she first
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enrolls each school year, the school in which the student makes
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himself or herself a candidate for an athletic team by engaging
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in practice before enrolling, or the school to which the student
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has transferred, in accordance with s. 1006.20(2)(a).
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2. Only students of the female sex are eligible to
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participate on athletic teams designated for girls only. As used
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in this paragraph, "sex" has the same meaning as provided in s.
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456.0335(2).
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Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
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