Bill Text: MI HB4540 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Crimes: crimes against minors; providing puberty-blocking drugs or genital gender reassignment surgery to anyone under 18 years of age; prohibit. Amends 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.1 - 750.568) by adding sec. 135b.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-10 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/09/2023 [HB4540 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4540-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4540
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
(MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 135b.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 135b. (1) A person shall not provide a puberty-blocking drug to a minor to delay or suppress pubertal development in that minor to assist that minor with a gender transition.
(2) A person shall not provide genital gender reassignment surgery to a minor.
(3) A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years.
(4) As used in this section:
(a) "Gender transition" means the process in which an individual shifts from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to the individual's sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from the individual's sex, and may include social, legal, or physical changes.
(b) "Genital gender reassignment surgery" means a medical procedure that is knowingly performed to assist an individual with a gender transition, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) A penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, or vulvoplasty for a male sex patient.
(ii) A hysterectomy or ovariectomy for a female sex patient.
(iii) A surgical reconstruction of the fixed part of the urethra with or without a metoidioplasty.
(iv) A phalloplasty, vaginectomy, or scrotoplasty, or the implantation of erection or testicular prostheses for a female sex patient.
(c) "Minor" means an individual who is less than 18 years of age.
(d) "Puberty-blocking drug" means either of the following:
(i) A gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue or other synthetic drug used in a male sex individual to stop luteinizing hormone secretion or production and testosterone secretion or production.
(ii) A synthetic drug used in a female sex individual to stop the production or secretion of estrogens and progesterone.
