Allowing a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child’s sex

This bill allows a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child’s sex. The bill exempts from the definition of child abuse a person raising, guiding, or instructing a child in a manner consistent with the child’s sex, including but not limited to referring to the child by titles or pronouns consistent with the child’s sex; seeking and consenting to a mental health service for a child for the purpose of helping the child live a life consistent with the child’s sex; making mental health or medical decisions based on the child’s sex; and declining to consent to gender transition procedure-related activity for a child. The bill adds similar language to foster parent licensing considerations, court-ordered custody considerations during a dissolution of marriage, prospective adoptive parent considerations, and exemptions to the definition of child endangerment.71B (duties of the department upon receipt of [child abuse] report).