Overview

• House Bill 377 bars healthcare providers from prescribing puberty blockers or gender-transition hormones to people under 18 starting January 1, 2026.
• House Bill 712 restricts breast surgeries for minors to treat malignancy, injury, infection or malformation, explicitly banning transgender chest procedures.
• Both laws include exceptions allowing young people already receiving gender-affirming treatments to continue care after the bans take effect.
• The measures empower the state Board of Medicine to discipline providers and grant individuals harmed by prohibited care the right to sue.
• New Hampshire’s move departs from its New England neighbors and mirrors a national Republican strategy that has enacted similar bans in over two dozen states.