SB184 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Shay ShelnuttSenator

Republican

Co-Sponsor

Gerald H. Allen

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Public health, minors, biological male or female, sexual state, practices to alter or affirm minor's sexual identity or perception such as prescribing puberty blocking medication or surgeries, prohibited, exceptions, nurses and school personnel not to withhold information from parents, violations a Class C felony

Summary

SB184 would ban medical treatments and surgeries aimed at changing a minor's gender or delaying puberty, require parental notification of a minor's gender-related information in schools, and impose criminal penalties for violations.

What This Bill Does

The bill prohibits prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sterilizing or genital-altering surgeries for minors, with a narrow exception for minors with medically verifiable disorders of sex development. It creates a new crime (Class C felony) for violations. It also requires schools to share information with parents about a minor's gender or sex incongruence and prevents school staff from withholding such information from parents.

Who It Affects

• Minors who might seek gender-affirming care would be prohibited from receiving puberty blockers, hormones, or certain surgeries, with a narrow medical exception for specified disorders of sex development.
• Parents/guardians and school staff would be responsible for receiving and relaying information about a minor's gender or sex incongruence, with schools prohibited from withholding it from parents and required to disclose it.

Key Provisions

• Prohibits prescribing or administering puberty-blocking medications to stop or delay puberty in minors.
• Prohibits prescribing supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females and supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males.
• Prohibits performing sterilizing surgeries and surgeries that create genitalia of a different sex (e.g., metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty).
• Prohibits removing healthy or non-diseased body parts (except for male circumcision).
• Provides a narrow exception for procedures to treat minors with medically verifiable disorders of sex development.
• Requires school personnel to inform and not withhold information from a minor's parent about the minor's gender or sex incongruence.
• Imposes Class C felony penalties for violations.
• Defines key terms (Minor, Person, Sex) and states the act becomes effective 30 days after enactment.

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Subjects

Minors