Bill Text: TX SB753 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain conduct by physicians and health care providers involving gender transitioning and gender reassignment procedures and treatments for children; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-07 - Referred to State Affairs [SB753 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB753-Introduced.html
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| By: Middleton | S.B. No. 753 | |
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| relating to prohibiting certain conduct by physicians and health | ||
| care providers involving gender transitioning and gender | ||
| reassignment procedures and treatments for children; creating a | ||
| criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 161.702, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by Chapter 335 (S.B. 14), Acts of the 88th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.702. PROHIBITED PROVISION OR FACILITATION OF | ||
| GENDER TRANSITIONING OR GENDER REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES AND | ||
| TREATMENTS TO CERTAIN CHILDREN. For the purpose of transitioning a | ||
| child's biological sex as determined by the sex organs, | ||
| chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the | ||
| child's perception of the child's sex if that perception is | ||
| inconsistent with the child's biological sex, a physician or health | ||
| care provider may not knowingly: | ||
| (1) perform a surgery that sterilizes the child, | ||
| including: | ||
| (A) castration; | ||
| (B) vasectomy; | ||
| (C) hysterectomy; | ||
| (D) oophorectomy; | ||
| (E) metoidioplasty; | ||
| (F) orchiectomy; | ||
| (G) penectomy; | ||
| (H) phalloplasty; and | ||
| (I) vaginoplasty; | ||
| (2) perform a mastectomy; | ||
| (3) provide, prescribe, administer, or dispense any of | ||
| the following prescription drugs that induce transient or permanent | ||
| infertility: | ||
| (A) puberty suppression or blocking prescription | ||
| drugs to stop or delay normal puberty; | ||
| (B) supraphysiologic doses of testosterone to | ||
| females; or | ||
| (C) supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males; | ||
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| (4) remove any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body | ||
| part or tissue; or | ||
| (5) refer a child to a health care practitioner who is | ||
| licensed or otherwise authorized to provide health care in another | ||
| state, to facilitate the child's ability to receive in the other | ||
| state a procedure or treatment that would otherwise be prohibited | ||
| by this section if the procedure or treatment occurred in this | ||
| state. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter X, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, as added by Chapter 335 (S.B. 14), Acts of the 88th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, is amended by adding Section | ||
| 161.707 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.707. CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (a) A person who is a | ||
| physician or health care provider commits an offense if the person | ||
| knowingly violates Section 161.702. | ||
| (b) It is an exception to the application of this section | ||
| that the actor engaged in conduct authorized under Section 161.703. | ||
| (c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third | ||
| degree. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
