Wyoming § 35-4-1001 Gender transitioning and reassignment
procedures for children prohibited

Wyoming Statutes

§ 35-4-1001 — Gender transitioning and reassignment procedures for children prohibited

Wyoming § 35-4-1001

Title 35Public Health and Safety

Ch. 4HEALTH REGULATIONS GENERALLY

Art. 10GENDER-RELATED PROCEDURES

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Bluebook

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-4-1001 (2026).

Text

(a)As used in this section:

(i)"Child" means a person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age;

(ii)"Health care provider" means a person other than a physician who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by Wyoming law to provide or render health care or to dispense or prescribe a prescription drug in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession;

(iii)"Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine in this state by the state board of medicine under the Medical Practice Act.

(b)Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section and for purposes 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 in

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(a) As used in this section:
(i) "Child" means a person who is younger than
eighteen (18) years of age;
(ii) "Health care provider" means a person other than
a physician who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized
by Wyoming law to provide or render health care or to dispense
or prescribe a prescription drug in the ordinary course of
business or practice of a profession;
(iii) "Physician" means any person licensed to
practice medicine in this state by the state board of medicine
under the Medical Practice Act.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section
and for purposes 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, no physician or health care provider shall:
(i) Perform a surgery that sterilizes the child,
including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy,
metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty and
vaginoplasty;
(ii) Perform a mastectomy;
(iii) Provide, administer, prescribe 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;
(C) Supraphysiologic doses of estrogen to males.
(iv) Remove any otherwise healthy or nondiseased body
part or tissue.
(c) This section shall not apply to:
(i) Procedures or treatments that are performed with
the consent of the child's parent or guardian and are for a
child who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder
of sex development, including 46, XX chromosomes with
virilization, 46, XY with undervirilization or both ovarian and
testicular tissue;
(ii) Any procedure or treatment that is performed
with the consent of the child's parent or guardian and is for a
child with medically verifiable central precocious puberty.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit
a minor from receiving mental health treatment, provided that
such treatment shall not include any treatments prohibited by
subsection (b)(iii) of this section.