Senator Joey Hensley, MD

Legislation passed to protect children and family values, Prohibiting gender transition surgeries and irreversible hormone treatments for minors

Tennessee lawmakers have been at the forefront of the fight to stop hormone treatments in children to change their gender identity.

Tennessee led the nation when we took our first steps to ban hormone treatment for children.

Since then, we have expanded those efforts and now under current law, medical “transition” surgeries that remove body parts to enable the minor to identify as a gender different from their biological sex are banned.

Our law also b...