RSA 332-N:2 · Prohibitions for Health Care Providers

332-N:2 Prohibitions for Health Care Providers. –
I. Except as provided in paragraphs II and III, a person shall not knowingly perform or offer to perform on a minor, or administer or offer to administer to a minor, a medical procedure, including but not limited to a puberty-blocking or cross-sex hormone medication, if the performance or administration of the procedure or medication is for the purpose of altering or attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor's perception of his or her gender or sex, if that perception is inconsistent with the minor's biological sex as defined in this chapter:
(a) Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's biological sex; or
(b) Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's biological sex and asserted identity.
II. Paragraph I shall not apply to a procedure undertaken to treat a minor born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development as defined in RSA 332-M:2, II.
III. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a health care provider from continuing the direction or administration of medication or treatment that began prior to January 1, 2026, and such continued treatment shall not be considered a violation of this chapter.
IV. A person who is found to have violated this section by the board of medicine shall be subject to administrative disciplinary action under RSA 310 and shall not be subject to criminal liability.
Source. 2025, 275:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.