The nonprofit organization Do No Harm released its “Detransitioner Bill of Rights” to provide the framework for legislation that would protect minors from “gender-affirming care.”
Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb said, “The Detransitioner Bill of Rights 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,” he added.
Several of the rights included in the document include the Right to Informed Consent, Effective Care, Public Transparency, Insurance Coverage, Legal Restoration, and the Right to Justice.
The document states that no “healthcare professional or physician may provide pharmaceutical or surgical treatment to minors to address an inconsistency between the minor’s sex and the minor’s perceived gender or perceived sex” unless both the minor and legal guardians have consented.
It also adds that the minor cannot be denied mental health therapy.
If a physician does administer a gender procedure, they are liable for all costs “associated with subsequent detransition procedures sought by the minor within 25 years after the commencement of a gender transition procedure,” the document reads.
“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,” the list of rights explains.
According to a statement from Do No Harm, the legislation model 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.”
