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Utah law currently bars health care providers from starting hormonal treatment (puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones) for transgender minors unless the minor was diagnosed with gender dysphoria before January 28, 2023. This bill would add a further restriction: starting January 28, 2027, providers could no longer give cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers to any minor who would be younger than 16 as of this bill's effective date, or who had not already begun receiving cross-sex hormones by that date — meaning only minors who are 16 or older and already on such treatment as of the bill's effective date could continue receiving it. The bill would also allow providers to give a minor hormonal treatment for the purpose of tapering off or discontinuing it before January 28, 2027, without needing the state certification otherwise required to prescribe these treatments. Finally, the bill would eliminate the state's current requirement for a systematic medical evidence review of these hormonal treatments.