Bill Title: Prohibiting puberty blocking medications, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries for minors
Committee: Health Care & Wellness
Companion Bill:
Bill Summary:
AN ACT Relating to prohibiting puberty blocking medications, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries for minors; and adding a new section to chapter 18.130 RCW.
What the Bill says:
The bill states that No minor can be administered pharmaceutical drugs, hormone therapy drugs or surgery for the purpose of transgendering that minor.
Our Summary Opinion:
It is protecting the children from making a life altering choice during the uneducated and confused messaging that sometimes occurs for brief moments of their childhood when they are still developing into who they are.
Status: The house bill has not been scheduled for a hearing since it was sent to the Health Care & Wellness Committee on January 13th.