Bill 80: Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act, 2025

This bill most directly affects healthcare providers in Ontario — clinics, family health teams, nurse practitioner-led clinics, community health centres, and surgeons who provide or could provide gender affirming procedures such as surgeries, hormone treatments, and electrolysis. Private insurance companies operating in Ontario may also be affected if recommendations lead to expanded coverage mandates for gender affirming treatments not currently insured. The bill itself creates an advisory committee rather than imposing immediate operational changes, but its recommendations could eventually reshape referral processes, wait time standards, and the scope of publicly or privately covered procedures. Both solo practitioners and larger healthcare organizations could be impacted depending on what recommendations are ultimately adopted.