Health Occupations - Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Minors
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Summary
The bill bars any licensed health‑care practitioner in Maryland from prescribing, dispensing, or giving cross‑sex hormones—or providing hormone therapy—to a minor as treatment for a mental‑health diagnosis linked to gender nonconformity, including gender dysphoria. Violations are classified as felonies punishable by up to life imprisonment. It would take effect on October 1, 2026.
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- Health — Bill HearingHealth · Feb 18, 2026
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- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:30 p.m.
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- First Reading Health
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- Arikan · sponsor
- Adams
- Anderson
- Beauchamp
- Chisholm
- Fisher
- Grammer
- Kipke
- M. Morgan
- Nawrocki
- Sample-Hughes
- Szeliga
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