WisconsinWould bar providers from certain gender-transition care for minors
If enacted, Wisconsin health care providers would be barred from specified surgeries, drugs, and tissue removal for minors, with medical exceptions.
What it does
Health care providers would not be allowed to perform or arrange specified surgeries, drugs, or tissue removal for minors, with exceptions for certain medical conditions and emergencies.
Licensing boards would investigate alleged violations and revoke a provider’s license after a probable-cause finding, hearing, and final violation finding.
Argument forClear limits may help parents and providers understand which treatments the proposal would prohibit for minors.
Argument againstMinors seeking these treatments could lose access, although the proposal keeps exceptions for certain disorders, injuries, illnesses, and emergencies.
More detail
Health care providers would be barred from performing, arranging, or referring for specified gender-transition medical interventions for minors. The rule would cover people under 18 and include certain sterilizing surgeries, mastectomies, puberty-blocking drugs, high-dose sex hormones, and removal of healthy tissue. The restriction would apply when the purpose is to change a minor’s body to match a sex different from the minor’s biological sex. Exceptions would cover good-faith care for certain medically verifiable disorders of sex development, treatment of infections or other problems caused or worsened by an earlier procedure, and procedures needed to prevent imminent death or loss of a major bodily function. The restriction would begin on the first day of the seventh month beginning after publication, if the measure took effect.
Professional licensing boards would investigate alleged violations, hold a hearing after finding probable cause, and revoke the responsible provider’s license or certificate after finding a violation. The rules would apply to covered medical, nursing, physician, and other licensed health care professionals identified in the bill. The board would have to investigate the allegation and find probable cause before holding a hearing. After revocation under these provisions, the affected credential could not be restored or reinstated under the cited restoration rules. These investigations, hearings, and penalties would begin when the underlying restriction took effect, on the first day of the seventh month beginning after publication.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- May 13Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82Latest
- May 12Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)
- Mar 31Report vetoed by the Governor Tony Evers on 3-31-2026Major
- Mar 26Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2026To Governor
- Feb 16Report correctly enrolled on 2-16-2026Minor
- Feb 16LRB correction
- Feb 12Received from Senate concurred inMinor
- Feb 11Ordered immediately messaged
- Vote recorded CONCURRENCE. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 11Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 15Passed Senate
- Feb 11Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- Feb 11Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Feb 11Read a second timeMinor
- Feb 9Placed on calendar 2-11-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- Jan 16Available for scheduling
- Vote recorded Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 16Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development, Ayes 3, Noes 2Minor
- Jan 16Executive action taken
- Jan 14Public hearing held
- 2025
- Mar 27Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic DevelopmentMinor
- Mar 20Received from AssemblyMinor
- Vote recorded PASSAGE. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 20Ordered immediately messaged
- Mar 20Read a third time and passed, Ayes 50, Noes 43Passed Assembly
- Mar 20Rules suspended
- Mar 20Ordered to a third readingMinor
- Mar 20Read a second timeMinor
- Mar 18Placed on calendar 3-20-2025 by Committee on Rules
- Mar 13Referred to committee on RulesMinor
- Vote recorded Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 10, Noes 5. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 13Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Ayes 10, Noes 5Minor
- Mar 13Executive action taken
- Mar 12Public hearing held
- Mar 6Representative Piwowarczyk added as a coauthor
- Mar 5Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term CareMinor
- Mar 5Introduced by Representatives Allen, Vos, Behnke, Brill, Brooks, Callahan, Dittrich, Goeben, Green, Gundrum, Hurd, B. Jacobson, Knodl, Kreibich, Maxey, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Neylon, O'Connor, Penterman, Steffen, Tucker, Tusler and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Tomczyk, Kapenga, Nass, Quinn and WimbergerIntroduced
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