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This bill prohibits the Department of Corrections (DOC), Oregon Youth Authority (OYA), and Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing gender-affirming care to individuals in correctional facilities. The bill defines a "correctional facility" broadly as any place used to confine persons charged with or convicted of a crime, including youth correction facilities and state hospitals. "Gender-affirming care" is defined as any medical procedure, service, drug, device, or product prescribed to treat incongruence between a person's gender identity and their sex assignment at birth. The prohibition applies to individuals in custody, with an exception for patients who are admitted voluntarily or through civil commitment proceedings at state hospitals or intensive community inpatient facilities. By restricting access to these medical treatments, the bill aims to limit gender-affirming healthcare for incarcerated individuals, regardless of existing anti-discrimination laws that might otherwise protect such medical treatments.

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https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB672