“The Alaska State Medical Board opposes hormonal and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria in minors due to insufficient evidence of long-term benefits and risks of irreversible harm,” the board told the state Legislature on March 21, reporting a resolution it unanimously adopted at its March 20 meeting. “The Board urges members of the legislature to consider statutory limits on such treatments.”

Alaska is one of a shrinking minority of states that have yet to legislatively protect minors from gender transition procedures, and the only Republican-controlled state that has not enacted legislative protections for minors. Earlier this year, Kansas became the 27th state to do so when the legislature overrode Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto.

In 2024, Republican Alaska Rep. Jamie Allard introduced a bill (HB 338) that would create a civil liability for “an injury or condition suffered as a result” of a gender transition procedure performed on a minor. The bill never came up for a vote on the House floor. In the current legislative session, no bill affecting gender transition........

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