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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 778 

To amend chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit gender 

reassignment medical interventions on minors, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 16, 2021 

Mr. MARSHALL (for himself, Mr. BRAUN, Mrs. BLACKBURN, and Mrs. HYDESMITH) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, 

to prohibit gender reassignment medical interventions on 

minors, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Children 

5 From Experimentation Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GENDER REASSIGNMENT MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS 

7 ON MINORS PROHIBITED. 

8 Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is 

9 amended— 


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1 (1) by adding at the end the following: 

2 ‘‘§ 2260B. Gender reassignment medical interventions 

3 on minors 

4 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever knowingly performs 

5 any gender reassignment medical intervention on a minor 

6 shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 

7 5 years, or both. 

8 ‘‘(b) PROHIBITION ON PROSECUTION OF PERSON ON

9 WHOM INTERVENTION IS PERFORMED.—No person on 

10 whom the gender reassignment medical intervention under 

11 subsection (a) is performed may be arrested or prosecuted 

12 for an offense under this section. 

13 ‘‘(c) CIVIL ACTION.—A person on whom a gender re14 assignment medical intervention is performed under this 

15 section may bring a civil action for appropriate relief 

16 against each person who performed the gender reassign17 ment medical intervention. 

18 ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

19 ‘‘(1) GENDER REASSIGNMENT MEDICAL INTER20 VENTION.— 

21 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this 

22 chapter, except as provided in subparagraph 

23 (B), the term ‘gender reassignment medical 

24 intervention’ means— 


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1 ‘‘(i) performing a surgery that steri2 lizes an individual, including castration, 

3 vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, 

4 metoidioplasty, penectomy, phalloplasty, 

5 and vaginoplasty, to change the body of 

6 such individual to correspond to a sex that 

7 is discordant with biological sex; 

8 ‘‘(ii) performing a mastectomy on an 

9 individual for the purpose described in 

10 clause (i); or 

11 ‘‘(iii) administering or supplying to an 

12 individual medications for the purpose de13 scribed in clause (i), including— 

14 ‘‘(I) GnRH agonists or other pu15 berty-blocking drugs to stop or delay 

16 normal puberty; 

17 ‘‘(II) testosterone or other 

18 androgens to biological females at 

19 doses that are supraphysiologic to the 

20 female sex; or 

21 ‘‘(III) estrogen to biological 

22 males at doses that are 

23 supraphysiologic to the male sex. 

24 ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) 

25 shall not apply to the following individuals: 


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1 ‘‘(i) An individual with external bio2 logical sex characteristics that are 

3 irresolvably ambiguous, such as those born 

4 with 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 

5 46 XY chromosomes with undervirilization, 

6 or having both ovarian and testicular tis7 sue. 

8 ‘‘(ii) An individual with respect to 

9 whom a physician has determined through 

10 genetic or biochemical testing that the in11 dividual does not have normal sex chro12 mosome structure, sex steroid hormone 

13 production, or sex steroid hormone action 

14 for a biological male or biological female. 

15 ‘‘(2) MINOR.—The term ‘minor’ means any per16 son under the age of eighteen years.’’; and 

17 (2) by amending the table of sections for such 

18 chapter by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘2260B. Gender reassignment medical interventions on minors.’’. 

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