WV-SB279-2025
West Virginia · SB 279 · 2025
Prohibiting gender transition surgeries, treatments, and therapies to minors
Anti-LGBTQ+Failed
- Bill key
- WV-SB279-2025
- State
- West Virginia
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- introduced
- Citation (Bluebook)
- S.B. 279, 87th Leg., 1st Reg. Sess. (W. Va. 2025), http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=279&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill.
- Short citation
- W. Va. S.B. 279.
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
Prohibiting gender transition surgeries, treatments, and therapies to minors
Curator notes
Includes a counseling ban; The Medicaid & Public funds ban refers back to a section on procedures banned for minors
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Azinger | Republican | Senator | SD-003 | Primary sponsor |
Model-bill lineage
Model-bill templates this bill matches
- Vulnerable Child Protection Act Derived
Bill family
Part of a family of 4 similar bills in one state. View the family.
Similar bills
- CO HB 1253 (2025)
- IA SF 2213 (2020)
- MD HB 722 (2024)
- NC H 43 (2023)
- NC H 786 (2023)
- NC H 808 (2023)
- NC S 639 (2023)
- VA SB 1074 (2025)
- VA SB 411 (2026)
- VA SB 671 (2024)
- VA SB 960 (2023)
- WA HB 1038 (2026)
- WA HB 2241 (2024)
- WV HB 2171 (2021)
- WV HB 2171 (2022)
- WV HB 4635 (2020)
- WV SB 194 (2024)
- WV SB 629 (2026)
- WV SB 697 (2023)
Bill text
- As introduced (13,419 characters)
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