Bill to cut state/Medicaid funding for adult gender-affirming care passes Senate
Pending5/10
Georgia · Georgia SB 39 (2025-2026) · Approved by voters Feb 11, 2025
Impact 5/10
SB 39 would bar Georgia Medicaid, the state employee health plan, prison healthcare, and public university health plans from covering gender-affirming surgery, hormone therapy, or related counseling for transgender adults. Passed the Senate 33-19 on Feb 11, 2025; stalled in the House and was recommitted rather than signed into law. (A separate, decades-old Medicaid exclusion on surgery was narrowed by a 2022 ACLU settlement requiring case-by-case medical-necessity review.)
HealthcareLGBTQ+Working-age adultsTransgender / nonbinaryLow-income
Sources
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- Georgia Recorder: Bills targeting transgender medical care continue to move through the Legislature ↗
- LegiScan: Georgia SB 39 (2025-2026) ↗
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