Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the removal of children from homes as a response to the child receiving gender-affirming care in New York.

Highlights:

• Specifies that the court has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the  child  is  present  in this state because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming care (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that iu a case where the provision of gender-affirming care to the child is at issue, the court shall not determine that it is an inconvenient forum and must  find that it is a more appropriate forum where the law or policy of the other state that may take jurisdiction limits the ability of a parent to obtain gender-affirming care for their child (Sec. 1). 

• Defines “gender-affirming care” (Sec. 1). 

• PRohibits laws that allow for the removal of children from a home in the case of a child receiving gender affirming care (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that the department shall not charge a licensee with misconduct as  defined, or cause a complaint made by any  person  to  the  department to be investigated beyond a preliminary review, solely on the basis that such licensee  performed,  recommended, or provided any reproductive health services or gender-affirming care (Sec. 1). 

• Defines “Reproductive Health Care” (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that Gender-affirming care or reproductive health services do not constitute misconduct by healthcare professionals (Sec. 1).

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