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Starting May 6, 2026, Utah's Public Employees' Benefit Insurance Program — the health insurance plan covering state government workers — would be barred from covering or reimbursing hormone treatments for transgender transition or surgeries altering primary or secondary sex characteristics for that purpose. An exception allows employees already receiving hormone treatment as of May 5, 2026 to continue that specific course of treatment under their existing coverage terms until it ends, as long as their physician determines continuing it is medically necessary. The bill also requires the insurance program to offer the same type and amount of coverage for procedures to detransition (restoring someone to their biological sex) as it previously provided for that person's transition-related treatment or surgery, if such coverage was paid before May 6, 2026.