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The bill protects minors from federal criminal prosecution and creates civil remedies for them, while imposing criminal penalties and greater liability on providers—likely reducing access to gender‑affirming care for youth and expanding federal involvement in healthcare decisions.
Minors who receive the enumerated gender‑affirming procedures are protected from federal criminal prosecution for having undergone those procedures.
Minors harmed by the enumerated procedures have a civil route to seek relief against providers, enabling individual compensation or other remedies.
Health care professionals who provide the enumerated gender‑affirming treatments to minors face federal criminal penalties (up to 5 years and fines), directly threatening clinicians who deliver such care.
Minors could lose access to certain gender‑affirming medical and surgical care as clinicians and health systems decline treatment to avoid federal liability, reducing availability of care for affected youth.
The bill increases providers' civil liability and malpractice exposure for delivering related care, likely raising costs and deterring clinicians from offering those services.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes it a federal crime for health professionals to knowingly provide or assist specified gender transition procedures to minors under certain interstate-commerce conditions, with fines/prison and a private right to sue.
Introduced June 3, 2025 by Doug Lamalfa · Last progress June 3, 2025
Makes it a federal crime for a physical or mental health care professional to knowingly perform or help perform specified gender transition procedures on a person under 18 when one of several interstate-commerce conditions applies. Violators face fines and up to five years in prison; the bill bars criminal prosecution of the minor, creates a private civil right of action for the person who received the procedure, and defines key terms and the scope of covered medical interventions.