Summary

Creates a new federal crime that prohibits performing, attempting, facilitating, consenting to, or transporting a minor for genital or bodily mutilation and for so-called "chemical castration," and sets criminal penalties including fines and up to 10 years in prison. The measure includes detailed criminal jurisdiction rules, narrow medical exceptions, a bar on religious or cultural defenses, protection from prosecution for victims, and precise statutory definitions of covered surgeries, chemical treatments, and the population covered.

• Creates a federal crime banning genital or bodily mutilation and so-called chemical castration of anyone under 18.
• Penalties include a fine and up to 10 years imprisonment for violations.
• Also criminalizes facilitating, consenting to, or transporting a minor for female genital mutilation.
• Establishes multiple federal jurisdictional bases tied to interstate commerce, interstate facilities, and U.S. territorial jurisdiction.
• Provides narrow medical exceptions and exemptions for certain medically indicated procedures.
• Bars religious, customary, or cultural defenses to prosecution and exempts victims from being prosecuted.
• Includes detailed definitions that explicitly list many surgeries/procedures and defines chemical castration to cover GnRH analogues and supraphysiologic hormone uses.
• Inserts the new offense into the Title 18 table of sections in the federal criminal code.