Wisconsin bill would allow lawsuits against doctors that provide gender-affirming care

"Senate Bill 405 would create "a civil cause of action against a health care provider who performs a gender transition procedure ... on an individual who is under 18 years of age and who is injured, including any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological injury, by the gender transition procedure or related treatment or the aftereffects of the gender transition procedure or related treatment." Patients would be allowed to sue their providers until they reach age 33."

""It is incredibly important that we listen to trans people when we're talking about their medically necessary health care," "It is also incredibly important that we stop debating their humanity, and that we stop using anyone's individual experience to score political points.I am immeasurably lucky to have incredible trans people in my life, many of whom I have known since they were children. It is difficult to see this legislature perpetually putting them in a position of having to defend their existence, the validity of their own identities, the necessity of their own health care, and the value of their own lives.""

Senate Bill 405 would create a civil cause of action against health care providers who perform gender transition procedures on individuals under 18 and who sustain physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological injuries from the procedure, related treatment, or aftereffects. The bill permits patients to sue providers until they reach age 33. The bill would allow exceptions for providers who document that a minor's perceived gender or perceived sex is invariably inconsistent with the minor's biological sex throughout a two-year period. Dozens of community members opposed the bill at a Senate Committee on Health hearing, and Fair Wisconsin submitted thousands of pages of written testimony describing harms to transgender youth.

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