Montana SB218

A health care professional or physician may be found liable under subsection (1) for an injury caused by the following treatments or the after-effects of the following treatments provided to a male patient to address the patient's perception that the patient's gender or sex is not male: (i) surgical procedures, including a penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, vulvoplasty, augmentation mammoplasty, facial feminization surgery, voice surgery, thyroid cartilage reduction, or gluteal augmentation; (ii) supraphysiologic doses of estrogen; or (iii) puberty blockers such as GnRH agonists or other synthetic drugs that suppress the production of testosterone or delay or suppress pubertal development in male minors. (5) The medical treatments listed in subsections (4)(a) and (4)(b) may be the basis of a claim under subsection (1) only when knowingly provided to address a female patient's perception that the patient's gender or sex is not female or a male patient's perception that the patient's gender or sex is not male.