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AZ SB1138

Bill

Status

Passed

3/30/2022

Primary Sponsor

Warren Petersen

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2022)

AI Summary

  • Prohibits physicians from providing irreversible gender reassignment surgery to individuals under 18 years of age.

  • Allows physicians to provide services to minors with medically verifiable disorders of sex development, including those with ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or abnormal sex chromosome structure.

  • Permits treatment of infections, injuries, diseases, or disorders caused by or exacerbated by gender transition procedures, regardless of legality of the original procedure.

  • Allows surgical intervention for minors facing imminent danger of death or major bodily function impairment due to physical disorder, injury, or illness.

  • Defines irreversible gender reassignment surgery to include specific procedures such as penectomy, vaginoplasty, hysterectomy, phalloplasty, mastectomy, and related surgeries; effective March 31, 2023.

Legislative Description

Irreversible gender reassignment surgery; minors

Minors

Last Action

Chapter 104

3/30/2022

Committee Referrals

Rules3/1/2022
Judiciary2/25/2022
Rules1/11/2022
Health and Human Services1/11/2022

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