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The bill prioritizes additional oversight and mental-health evaluation for minors considering gender-related medical care, which may reduce some irreversible interventions but also risks restricting access to gender-affirming treatment, increasing provider scrutiny, and stigmatizing transgender youth.
Children and adolescents who are considering medical interventions: may be less likely to receive irreversible medical treatments without additional oversight or safeguards.
Youth with gender-related concerns and mental-health needs: could receive increased evaluation and behavioral-health support addressing comorbidities before medical treatments are pursued.
Transgender minors who seek gender-affirming medical care: could face reduced access to treatments that evidence shows improve mental-health outcomes for some patients.
Transgender youth and their families: may experience increased stigma from public framing of the findings, which could discourage them from seeking medical or mental-health care.
Healthcare providers and children's hospitals: may face increased legal and regulatory scrutiny that limits clinical options and complicates care delivery.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Records findings that 'gender ideology' and gender-affirming medical care have caused irreparable harm to individuals, especially minors, and cites related statistics and federal health agency language.
Introduced March 16, 2026 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress March 16, 2026
States findings that "gender ideology" and various forms of gender-affirming medical care have caused irreparable harm to people, especially minors. The text cites increases in diagnoses of gender dysphoria since 2013, counts of children and teens diagnosed and treated between 2017–2021, reported use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries, co-occurring mental-health conditions, detransition cases, and references to federal health agency language warning of irreversible harms.