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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9586 

To prohibit Federal funds from being used to provide certain gender transition 

procedures to individuals in the custody of the Department of Homeland 

Security and the Department of Health and Human Services. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 

Mr. STEUBE (for himself, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. 

DUNCAN, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. TIFFANY, and Mr. ROSENDALE) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 

Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To prohibit Federal funds from being used to provide certain 

gender transition procedures to individuals in the custody 

of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services. 

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 ‘‘Stopping Transgender 

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1 dents and Detainees Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘STOP WEIRD 

2 Act of 2024’’. 

3 SEC. 2. PROHIBITING FEDERAL FUNDS FROM BEING USED 

4 TO PROVIDE CERTAIN GENDER TRANSITION 

5 PROCEDURES. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi7 sion of law, no Federal funds may be used or otherwise 

8 made available to provide or refer for a specified gender 

9 transition procedure to an individual in the custody of the 

10 Department of Homeland Security or the Department of 

11 Health and Human Services or to reimburse any entity 

12 for providing such a procedure to such an individual. 

13 (b) SPECIFIED GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURE

14 DEFINED.— 

15 (1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this para16 graph, except as provided in paragraph (2), the term 

17 ‘‘specified gender transition procedure’’ means, with 

18 respect to an individual, any of the following when 

19 performed for the purpose of intentionally changing 

20 the body of such individual to no longer correspond 

21 to their sex: 

22 (A) Performing any surgery, including— 

23 (i) castration; 

24 (ii) orchiectomy; 

25 (iii) scrotoplasty; 


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1 (iv) vasectomy; 

2 (v) hysterectomy; 

3 (vi) oophorectomy; 

4 (vii) ovariectomy; 

5 (viii) metoidioplasty; 

6 (ix) penectomy; 

7 (x) phalloplasty; 

8 (xi) vaginoplasty; 

9 (xii) vaginectomy; 

10 (xiii) vulvoplasty; 

11 (xiv) reduction thyrochondroplasty; 

12 (xv) chondrolaryngoplasty; 

13 (xvi) mastectomy; and 

14 (xvii) any plastic, cosmetic, or aes15 thetic surgery that feminizes or 

16 masculinizes the facial or other body fea17 tures of an individual. 

18 (B) Any placement of chest implants to 

19 create feminine breasts. 

20 (C) Any placement of fat or artificial im21 plants in the gluteal region. 

22 (D) Administering, supplying, prescribing, 

23 dispensing, distributing, or otherwise conveying 

24 to an individual medications, including— 


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1 (i) gonadotropin-releasing hormone 

2 (GnRH) analogues or other puberty-block3 ing drugs to stop or delay normal puberty; 

4 and 

5 (ii) testosterone, estrogen, or other 

6 androgens to an individual at doses that 

7 are supraphysiologic than would normally 

8 be produced endogenously in a healthy in9 dividual of the same age and sex. 

10 (2) SEX.—For purposes of paragraph (1), the 

11 term ‘‘sex’’ means the indication of male or female 

12 sex by reproductive potential or capacity, sex chro13 mosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, 

14 or internal or external genitalia present at birth. 

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