Health care; creating the Wrongful Life Act; prohibiting physician or other health care professional from providing certain services to a minor. Effective date.

Summary

The bill makes it illegal for doctors or other health professionals to perform gender‑transition surgery, prescribe hormone therapy, or give puberty‑blocking drugs to anyone under 18 unless the treatment is medically necessary, and it bars parents or guardians from consenting to such care. It also creates a civil cause of action allowing minors (or their guardians) to sue the provider or the consenting parent for damages if the treatment prevents them from having children, impregnating, or breastfeeding, with no statute of limitations and a presumption they would have been able to reproduce. The law adds these civil remedies to existing statutes and treats a parent’s illegal consent as child abuse.

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