'Detransitioner Bill of Rights' provides framework to protect vulnerable children from so-called 'gender-affirming care'

Nonprofit Do No Harm recently released model legislation to protect vulnerable children and adolescents from highly experimental so-called "gender-affirming care."

On Tuesday, the organization unveiled the "Detransitioner Bill of Rights," model legislation that state lawmakers could adopt to protect individuals "harmed by experimental sex change procedures."

"This pioneering model legislation is designed to provide support and justice to those who have been abandoned by the medical community when seeking to detransition from harmful and experimental sex change treatments they received as children," Do No Harm stated.

The model bill aims to ensure that detransitioners have a right to informed consent, effective care, public transparency, insurance coverage, legal restoration, and justice.

The legislation states that medical providers can only provide "pharmaceutical or surgical treatment" to minors suffering from an inconsistency between their sex and their perceived gender if they receive informed consent from both the minor and their parents. Under the model bill, minors cannot be denied mental health therapy.

Additionally, gender clinics "must provide a report of statistics regarding all gender transition procedures" to ensure public transparency. If state funds are used to pay for a so-called gender transition procedure, state funds must also cover detransition procedures, Do No Harm's legislation states.

The model bill also calls for medical professionals administering gender-related procedures and pharmaceuticals to be personally liable for all costs associated with the detransition process.

"Any healthcare professional or physician who provides a minor with a gender transition procedure is strictly liable to that minor if the treatment or the after-effects of such treatment, including a subsequent detransition procedure, results in any injury, including physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms, within the next 25 years," it stated.

Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explained that the model legislation "represents a crucial step in protecting the rights and well-being of children who have been subjected to experimental sex change treatments."

"Medical professionals should publicly acknowledge the plight of detransitioners and research ways to help and support those who regret undergoing these procedures," Goldfarb said.

The organization's executive director, Kristina Rasmussen, added that the bill would protect the well-being and rights of children who are at risk.

"The Detransitioner Bill of Rights is a significant step toward helping young people who've been funneled toward treatments that can lead to life-long suffering," Rasmussen stated.

Do No Harm noted that the legislation framework is "available to all" to "reinforc[e] the protection of patient rights and upholding ethical healthcare practices."

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