Signed by Governor Brad Little

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that prohibits gender affirming care for minors in the state of Idaho.

Highlights:

• Defines performance of gender-affirming surgery (e.g. phaloplasty, vaginoplasty) and/or administration of puberty blockers as “genital mutilation of a child”; classifies such activity as felony (Page 1).

• Alleges that “a medical intervention that results in the impairment and mutilation of the reproductive organs and parts of a child is never necessary to the health of the child on whom it is performed if it is for the sole purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the child's perception of the child's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's biological sex” (Page 2).

• Authorizes such interventions in cases of “medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development” (Page 2).

• Alleges that “Gender dysphoria among children rarely persists into adulthood, with peer-reviewed research revealing that as many as ninety-eight percent (98%) of gender dysphoric boys and as many as eighty-eight percent (88%) of gender dysphoric girls ultimately identify with their biological sex after passing through puberty” (Page 3).

• Establishes effective date of January 1, 2024 (Page 5).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits gender affirming care for minors in the state of Idaho.

Highlights:

• Defines performance of gender-affirming surgery (e.g. phaloplasty, vaginoplasty) and/or administration of puberty blockers as “genital mutilation of a child”; classifies such activity as felony (Page 1).

• Alleges that “a medical intervention that results in the impairment and mutilation of the reproductive organs and parts of a child is never necessary to the health of the child on whom it is performed if it is for the sole purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the child's perception of the child's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's biological sex” (Page 2).

• Authorizes such interventions in cases of “medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development” (Page 2).

• Alleges that “Gender dysphoria among children rarely persists into adulthood, with peer-reviewed research revealing that as many as ninety-eight percent (98%) of gender dysphoric boys and as many as eighty-eight percent (88%) of gender dysphoric girls ultimately identify with their biological sex after passing through puberty” (Page 3).

• Establishes effective date of January 1, 2024 (Page 5).

Full Bill Text