Oklahoma SB1049 creates the Wrongful Life Act, prohibiting certain gender transition services for minors and authorizing civil actions for damages.
Oklahoma SB1049, known as the Wrongful Life Act, prohibits physicians and health care professionals from providing gender transition surgery, hormone therapy, or puberty-blocking drugs to minors. It also prohibits parents or legal guardians from consenting to these services for minors. The act allows minors or their guardians to bring civil actions against those who provide such services, seeking compensatory damages for loss of natural reproductivity functions, punitive damages, and other appropriate relief.
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