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The bill tightens restrictions and oversight on foreign involvement in gender‑related medical care and creates reporting tools for Congress, but does so in ways that risk restricting patient access, criminalizing routine transgender healthcare, and imposing due‑process and privacy harms on travelers and providers.
U.S. minors (persons under 18): foreign medical providers would have fewer opportunities to perform gender‑transition treatments on them, reducing cross‑border avenues for those treatments.
Taxpayers and Congress: establishes a reporting mechanism to track and quantify foreign providers targeted by sanctions and to recommend further measures, improving oversight and policy information.
Transgender people and related healthcare providers: definitions in the bill (e.g., 'chemical or surgical mutilation' and 'sex' determined at conception) could effectively criminalize widely accepted gender‑affirming medical care and increase discrimination and legal risk for practitioners and patients.
Immigrants, international travelers, diplomats, and foreign providers: immediate automatic visa revocations plus public submission procedures risk disrupting lawful travel and diplomatic functions, raise due‑process and international law concerns, and enable false accusations and privacy harms toward providers and whistleblowers.
U.S. patients seeking cross‑border treatments (including those with chronic conditions) and immigrant patients: barring foreign medical professionals and clinics from entering the U.S. would restrict access to care options and could worsen health outcomes for people who rely on cross‑border services.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Makes foreign providers and facility owners inadmissible and automatically revokes visas if they performed or facilitated specified gender-related medical interventions on U.S. persons, with limited exceptions and a presidential waiver.
Official title: To require the imposition of visa sanctions with respect to each foreign person the President determines has performed or otherwise facilitated chemical or surgical mutilations of United States minors, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Addison P. McDowell · Last progress December 18, 2025
Imposes automatic visa and admission bans on foreign medical providers, facility owners, and affiliated persons who, as licensed physicians, performed, prescribed, or facilitated what the bill calls “chemical or surgical mutilations” on U.S. persons (with defined exceptions). Requires the Secretary of State to accept public tips, submit a report to Congress within 180 days about sanctions taken and recommendations, and allows a presidential national-security waiver and narrow whistleblower exceptions. The law defines key terms (including “chemical or surgical mutilation,” “detransition treatment,” “United States person,” and “foreign person”), revokes existing visas for identified individuals immediately, and preserves the remainder of the Act if any provision is struck down by a court.