Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.702

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.

Section 161.702 - Prohibited Provision Of Gender Transitioning Or Gender Reassignment Procedures And Treatments To Certain Children

For the purpose of transitioning a child's biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child's perception of the child's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's biological sex, a physician or health care provider may not knowingly:

(1) perform a surgery that sterilizes the child, including:

(A) castration;

(B) vasectomy;

(C) hysterectomy;

(D) oophorectomy;

(E) metoidioplasty;

(F) orchiectomy;

(G) penectomy;

(H) phalloplasty; and

(I) vaginoplasty;

(2) perform a mastectomy;

(3) provide, prescribe, administer, or dispense any of the following prescription drugs that induce transient or permanent infertility:

(A) puberty suppression or blocking prescription drugs to stop or delay normal puberty;

(B) supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females; or

(C) supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males; or

(4) remove any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 161.702

Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 335,Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/2023.