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FL S1864

Bill

Status

Failed

3/14/2020

Primary Sponsor

Dennis Baxley

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Origin

Senate

2020 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates the "Vulnerable Child Protection Act" prohibiting health care practitioners from performing gender-affirming medical procedures on minors

  • Makes it a second-degree felony for practitioners to perform sterilizing surgeries (castration, hysterectomy, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, etc.), mastectomies, or remove healthy body parts on minors for purposes of changing or affirming sex inconsistent with biological sex

  • Prohibits administering, prescribing, or supplying puberty-blocking medications or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to females or estrogen to males for gender-affirming purposes in minors

  • Defines "sex" as biological state based on sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles

  • Exempts treatment for minors with medically verifiable genetic disorders of sex development, including those with ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or abnormal chromosome structures

Legislative Description

Vulnerable Child Protection Act

Last Action

Died in Health Policy

3/14/2020

Committee Referrals

Health Policy1/17/2020

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