TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the division from providing coverage or reimbursement for a medical procedure performed on, or administered to, an individual if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling the individual to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the individual's sex, or treat purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the individual's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

Summary

The law prohibits Tennessee’s Medicaid program (TennCare) from paying for any procedure whose purpose is to let a person identify as a gender different from the sex assigned at birth or to treat distress from that mismatch. Coverage is still allowed for treatments of congenital defects, precocious puberty, disease or injury, and for procedures that began before the law’s effective date if a physician certifies stopping would harm the patient. The act became effective on July 1, 2026.

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