Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.702 · Subchapter Y. GENDER TRANSITIONING AND GENDER REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES AND TREATMENTS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN
PROHIBITED PROVISION OF GENDER TRANSITIONING OR GENDER REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES AND TREATMENTS TO CERTAIN CHILDREN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 335 (S.B. 14), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.
Redesignated from Health and Safety Code, Subchapter X, Chapter 161 by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 204 (H.B. 1620), Sec. 22.001(20), eff. September 1, 2025.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.161.htm
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Cited by 8 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.702. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 62.151CHILD HEALTH PLAN COVERAGE.Printed as Section 161.702
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.703EXCEPTIONS.Printed as Section 161.702
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.704PROHIBITED USE OF PUBLIC MONEY.Printed as Section 161.702
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.705PROHIBITED STATE HEALTH PLAN REIMBURSEMENT.Printed as Section 161.702
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.706ATTORNEY GENERAL ENFORCEMENT.Printed as Section 161.702
Human Resources Code
Occupations Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 164.052PROHIBITED PRACTICES BY PHYSICIAN OR LICENSE APPLICANT.Printed as Section 161.702, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 164.0552PROHIBITED ACTS REGARDING GENDER TRANSITIONING OR GENDER REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES AND TREATMENTS ON CERTAIN CHILDREN.Printed as Section 161.702, Health and Safety Code
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