Overview

• Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed House Bills 377 and 712 prohibiting puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-affirming chest surgeries for patients under 18.
• The statutes include an exception allowing youths already receiving gender-affirming treatments to continue them after the ban takes effect.
• Narrow medical exceptions permit breast surgeries for malignancy, injury, infection or malformation and related reconstructive procedures.
• Violations will be reviewed by the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, with providers facing disciplinary action and minors granted a private right to sue.
• New Hampshire is the lone New England state to restrict transgender healthcare in a wider Republican-led push following the Supreme Court’s upholding of Tennessee’s ban.