HB1872 on the House floor Thursday

HB1872

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HB1872 on the House floor Thursday

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Dear [Your Elected Official],

I urge you to vote NO on HB1872 on the House floor on Thursday.
Despite some helpful amendments, this bill is based on the false assumption that there has been coercion in gender-affirming care. If anything, the opposite holds. Gender-affirming care is not widely available and many forces actively hinder people's access. Studies consistently show that the vast majority of people who receive it are glad they did and that it improves mental health outcomes.
Painting a target on health care professionals is a bad move for Tennessee where we should seek to support all providers.
The AMA noted a significant rise in medical liability costs in January of 2025:
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<li>"The proportion of reported liability insurance premiums that rose from one year to the next hit 49.8% in 2024. By contrast, that figure stood at just 13.7% in 2018 and hovered around 15% in the three years prior to that.</li>
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<li>Among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., 46 reported at least one premium increase last year. That’s up from 36 that did so in 2023, 38 in 2022 and 32 in 2021.</li>
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<li>16 states saw at least one premium increase of 10% or more, up from 11 states in 2023, 15 states in 2022 and 12 states in 2021."</li>
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This bill's effort to discredit gender-affirming care will have an impact on everyone's health care in Tennessee. It puts further pressure on our limited number of providers and contributes to the financial strain on medical practices across the state.
Thank you for considering my views.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Address]

[Your City & State]

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Summary

From the official summary:  "As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against a healthcare professional by a person who suffered an injury that resulted from certain medical procedures if the reason the person, or the person's parent, guardian, or legal representative, consented to the medical procedure was due in whole or in part to coercion by the healthcare professional." This bill is on the House floor on Thursday evening. Note: There are a couple of good amendments in the bill. One defines "coercion," which was lacking in the original bill. The other gets rid of the retroactive provisions. It's still a bad bill and we oppose it in any form.

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