Document Type
Peach Sheet
Abstract
The Act prohibits the use of state funds or resources to provide genderaffirming medical care to incarcerated individuals. It bans funding for sex reassignment surgeries, hormone replacement therapy, and any cosmetic or prosthetic procedures intended to alter an inmate’s primary or secondary sex characteristics. The bill includes limited exceptions, such as treatments for individuals with intersex conditions or those requiring continued hormone therapy that began prior to incarceration and is continued only for tapering purposes. The Georgia Department of Corrections is tasked with creating rules to govern these exceptions.
Recommended Citation
Hailey Sanford & Elijah C. Byrd,
SB 185 - Penal Institutions,
42
Ga. St. U. L. Rev.
203
(2025).
Available at:
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol42/iss1/19