Tennessee HB1872 amends state laws to allow civil actions for damages against healthcare professionals for certain medical procedures.

Tennessee HB1872 amends Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29, Title 63, and Title 68 to allow individuals to bring civil actions for compensatory damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney fees against healthcare professionals for injuries resulting from specific medical procedures. These procedures include those intended to enable a person to identify with or live as a purported identity inconsistent with their sex, or those involving the surgical removal, modification, alteration, or entry into tissues, cavities, or organs of a human being, and the prescribing, administering, or.

Tennessee HB1872 amends state laws to allow civil actions for damages against healthcare professionals for certain medical procedures.

Tennessee HB1872 amends Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29, Title 63, and Title 68 to allow individuals to bring civil actions for compensatory damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney fees against healthcare professionals for injuries resulting from specific medical procedures. These procedures include those intended to enable a person to identify with or live as a purported identity inconsistent with their sex, or those involving the surgical removal, modification, alteration, or entry into tissues, cavities, or organs of a human being, and the prescribing, administering, or.