Text of MI HB 4540 (2023)
Crimes: crimes against minors; providing puberty-blocking drugs or genital gender reassignment surgery to anyone under 18 years of age; prohibit. Amends 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.1 - 750.568) by adding sec. 135b.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 4540
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
(MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 135b.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 135b. (1) A person shall not provide a
puberty-blocking drug to a minor to delay or suppress pubertal development in
that minor to assist that minor with a gender transition.
(2) A
person shall not provide genital gender reassignment surgery to a minor.
(3) A
person who violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable by
imprisonment for not more than 4 years.
(4)
As used in this section:
(a)
"Gender transition" means the process in which an individual shifts
from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to the
individual's sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from the
individual's sex, and may include social, legal, or physical changes.
(b)
"Genital gender reassignment surgery" means a medical procedure that
is knowingly performed to assist an individual with a gender transition,
including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) A penectomy, orchiectomy,
vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, or vulvoplasty for a male sex patient.
(ii) A hysterectomy or ovariectomy for a
female sex patient.
(iii) A surgical reconstruction of the
fixed part of the urethra with or without a metoidioplasty.
(iv) A phalloplasty, vaginectomy, or
scrotoplasty, or the implantation of erection or testicular prostheses for a
female sex patient.
(c)
"Minor" means an individual who is less than 18 years of age.
(d) "Puberty-blocking
drug" means either of the following:
(i) A gonadotropin-releasing hormone
analogue or other synthetic drug used in a male sex individual to stop
luteinizing hormone secretion or production and testosterone secretion or
production.
(ii) A synthetic drug used in a female
sex individual to stop the production or secretion of estrogens and progesterone.