Relating to Medical Professional Responsibility

HB 4083 prohibits physicians in West Virginia from providing gender reassignment surgery or gender-altering medication to individuals under 18 years old. It allows exceptions only for medically verified disorders of sex development (DSD), treatment of complications from prior gender transition procedures, or immediate life-threatening conditions. Violating this prohibition would result in license revocation for physicians and allow affected individuals to sue for damages, including costs of subsequent care. The bill defines "gender transition" as changing from identifying with one's sex assigned at birth and specifies that "sex" means male or female as observed at birth, with exceptions for DSD conditions under medical verification. The bill is currently pending in the House Judiciary Committee and would take effect in 2024.