Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits physicians from prescribing puberty-blocking drugs to transgender youth in Georgia.

Highlights:

• Prohibits physicians from prescribing puberty-blocking medication or hormone therapy to transgender youth in Georgia (Sec. 1-2).

• Defines “Puberty-blocking medication” means medication, whether biological, bioidentical, or synthetic, used to delay or suppress pubertal development in a minor to assist such minor with attempting to alter such minor's sex or to alter the appearance of or affirm such minor's perception of his or her sex if such appearance or perception is inconsistent with such minor's sex, including gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues or other synthetic drugs used in males to stop luteinizing hormone secretion, and therefore testosterone production, and synthetic drugs used in females to stop the production of estrogen and progesterone (Sec. 1-2).

• Defines “hormone therapy” as therapy that adds, blocks, or removes hormones to assist a minor with attempting to alter such minor's sex or to alter the appearance of or affirm such minor's perception of their sex if such appearance or perception is inconsistent with such minor's sex, including supraphysiologic estrogen or progesterone to a minor who is male or supraphysiologic testosterone to a minor who is female, whether such hormones are biological, bioidentical, or synthetic (Sec. 1-2).

• Specifies nothing in this bill shall prohibit a parent or guardian of a minor on or to whom a procedure or treatment is performed, prescribed, or administered in violation of this bill from seeking civil or criminal remedy (Sec. 2).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor and that any previous legislation found in conflict shall be repealed (Sec. 3).

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