SF 129: Relating to actions relative to treatment or intervention regarding the discordance between a minor’s sex and gender identity, and providing civil penalties

What it does

This bill includes provisions relating to practices undertaken to cause a minor to physically appear more like a person of the opposite sex and less like the minor’s own sex, or to conform to a gender identity incongruent with the minor’s sex. The bill contains findings regarding the harms and ineffectiveness of such practices and contains definitions used in the bill. The bill makes it unlawful for a medical professional to perform interventions or surgical procedures specified in the bill on a minor, and subjects a medical professional to disciplinary action and civil penalties for providing the prohibited treatments to or performing surgical procedures on a minor, unless the treatment occurs based on the good faith medical decision of a parent of a minor born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sexual development.

Senate subcommittee · named January 31, 2023

• Sen. Jeff Edler (R)
• Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 11 against

For: Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Catholic Conference; Protect My Innocence; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation

Against: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Common Good Iowa; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; IA Mental Health Planning Council; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Safe Schools; National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter; Next Generation of Cystinosis; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa

In plain words

1. January 25, 2023Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. January 31, 2023Senate subcommittee named: Edler, Petersen and Salmon