Text of WY HB 63 (2024)
Sex and gender changes for children-prohibited.
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HB0063
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
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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting
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physicians from performing procedures for children related
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to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing
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exceptions;
providing
definitions;
specifying
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applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for
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effective dates.
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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Section 1. W.S. 35-4-1001 is created to read:
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ARTICLE 10
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GENDER-RELATED PROCEDURES
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35-4-1001. Gender
reassignment
procedures
for
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children prohibited.
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(a) As used in this section:
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(i) "Child" means a person who is younger than
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eighteen (18) years of age;
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(ii) "Physician" means any person licensed to
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practice medicine in this state by the state board of
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medicine under the Medical Practice Act.
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(b) No physician shall, for purposes of transitioning
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a child's biological sex to a sex different than the sex
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assigned at birth as determined by the sex organs,
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chromosomes and endogenous profiles of the child, or for
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purposes of affirming the child's perception of the child's
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sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's
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biological sex:
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(i) Perform a surgery that sterilizes the child,
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including
castration,
vasectomy,
hysterectomy,
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oophorectomy,
metoidioplasty,
orchiectomy,
penectomy,
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phalloplasty and vaginoplasty;
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(ii) Perform a mastectomy.
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(c) This section shall not apply to:
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(i) Procedures or treatments that are performed
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with the consent of the child's parent or guardian and are
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for a child who is born with a medically verifiable genetic
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disorder of sex development, including but not limited to
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46,
XX
chromosomes
with
virilization,
46,
XY
with
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undervirilization or both ovarian and testicular tissue;
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(ii) Any
procedure
or
treatment
that
is
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performed with the consent of the child's parent or
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guardian and is for a child with medically verifiable
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central precocious puberty.
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Section 2. W.S. 35-4-1001, as created by section 1 of
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this act, shall apply only to conduct or procedures
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occurring on and after the effective date of this act.
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Section 3. The state board of medicine may promulgate
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any rules necessary to implement this act.
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Section 4.
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(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this
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section, this act is effective July 1, 2024.
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(b) Sections 3 and 4 of this act are effective
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immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a
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bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of
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the Wyoming Constitution.
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(END)