This bill would specify that certain actions, including using a child’s legal name, referring to a child by a pronoun consistent with their sex as determined at birth, or refusing to consent to, or provide, gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, are not sufficient to adjudge a child to be a dependent child of the court. In other words, parents cannot be accused of child abuse if they refuse to support their child’s gender transition, both physically and socially.
