Healthcare Liability - As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the procedure was for enabling the person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's sex and asserted identity, and the person consented; or if the person was a minor at the time of the procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or representative consented due to an act of coercion by the professional. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68.

HB 1872 would create a new civil lawsuit option for individuals (or their parents/guardians for minors) who consented to certain medical procedures due to coercion by a healthcare professional. Specifically, it targets procedures related to gender identity (like puberty blockers or hormones) when consent was obtained through coercion, not voluntary choice. The bill sets a strict 18-year deadline to file such lawsuits, starting from the procedure date or when the injury was discovered. This bill does not change existing medical standards but adds a legal remedy for alleged coercion in specific gender-related healthcare contexts. (Note: The bill is pending in committee and not yet law.)