HB174 amends state law to strengthen Utah's prohibition against providing "cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers" to minors.
The House passed HB174 on March 2, 2026, by a vote of 53 to 15. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill eliminates the exception in Utah's 2023 moratorium that allowed certain minors to continue "hormonal transgender treatment." No person has a right to harm a child, using the pretext of LGBTQ+ ideology. Chemical and surgical sex mutilation is a grotesque practice that not only violates the "unalienable" right to life and limb, but absurdly attempts to erase natural biological functions with fictional "gender identity" constructs. According to the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment, every State has an obligation to defend the basic humanity of its citizens—each of whom is born distinctly male or female, and, as the Declaration of Independence affirms, created equally in the image of God.
