Washington HB1038 prohibits puberty blocking medications, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgeries for minors.
Washington HB1038 prohibits health care providers from prescribing or administering puberty blocking medications, cross-sex hormones, and performing gender transition surgeries for minors. This includes gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, synthetic antiandrogen drugs, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and surgeries such as metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty. Exceptions are made for minors born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development or diagnosed with a disorder of sexual development by a physician.
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