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Senate codifies access to gender-affirming care; floor fight centers on minors and a new federal HHS review
Summary
The Colorado Senate on May 2 passed House Bill 13-09, which codifies protections for access to gender-affirming health care and removes testosterone prescriptions from routine PDMP visibility, after extensive floor debate over minors, medical evidence and patient safety.
The Colorado Senate passed House Bill 13-09 on May 2 after a lengthy and at times heated floor debate that focused on minors, medical evidence, and prescription monitoring for testosterone.
Sponsors described the bill as a codification of existing protections for access to gender-affirming health care and an effort to preserve those protections regardless of future administrative changes. The bill also removes testosterone from the state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) for the purpose of obscuring archived…
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