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World Progress · 2025

Brazil

MedicalMixed

Brazil’s medical council forbids puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in children and hormones before 18.

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What the law allows

Medical care for minorsMixed

Mixed: CFM Resolution 2.427/2025 forbids puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in children and adolescents and cross-sex hormones before 18; CFM states the STF restored the rule.

STF (restore of CFM criterion)

Key dates2025

2025: Mixed: CFM Resolution 2.427/2025 forbids puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in children and adolescents and cross-sex hormones before 18; CFM states the STF restored the rule.

STF (restore of CFM criterion)

Sources

Full record

This is a binding professional regulation. CFM Resolution 2.427/2025 (8 April 2025, DOU 16 April): Art. 5 prohibits physicians from prescribing puberty blockers for gender incongruence or dysphoria in children and adolescents (precocious puberty and recognised endocrine disease excepted). Art. 6 §2: opposite-sex hormones prohibited before 18. Art. 7: sterilizing surgeries not before 21. Already-started treatment is grandfathered (Art. 10).

The rule is national for doctors. STF Justice Flávio Dino restored the resolution after a first-instance Acre suspension (Reclamação 84.653).

CFM Resolution 2.427/2025 (PDF)

STF — restore of the CFM criterion

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