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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1926 

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

reassignment medical interventions on minors, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 16, 2021 

Mr. LAMALFA (for himself, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. 

DUNCAN, Mr. HICE of Georgia, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. STEUBE, 

Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. BANKS, Mr. WEBER of 

Texas, Mr. ADERHOLT, and Mr. BABIN) introduced the following bill; 

which was 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’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GENDER REASSIGNMENT MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS 

2 ON MINORS PROHIBITED. 

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

4 amended— 

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

6 ‘‘§ 2260B. Gender reassignment medical interventions 

7 on minors 

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

9 any gender reassignment medical intervention on a minor 

10 shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 

11 5 years, or both. 

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

13 WHOM INTERVENTION IS PERFORMED.—No person on 

14 whom the gender reassignment medical intervention under 

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

16 for an offense under this section. 

17 ‘‘(c) CIVIL ACTION.—A person on whom a gender re18 assignment medical intervention is performed under this 

19 section may bring a civil action for appropriate relief 

20 against each person who performed the gender reassign21 ment medical intervention. 

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

23 ‘‘(1) GENDER REASSIGNMENT MEDICAL INTER24 VENTION.— 

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

26 chapter, except as provided in subparagraph 


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1 (B), the term ‘gender reassignment medical 

2 intervention’ means— 

3 ‘‘(i) performing a surgery that steri4 lizes an individual, including castration, 

5 vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, 

6 metoidioplasty, penectomy, phalloplasty, 

7 and vaginoplasty, to change the body of 

8 such individual to correspond to a sex that 

9 is discordant with biological sex; 

10 ‘‘(ii) performing a mastectomy on an 

11 individual for the purpose described in 

12 clause (i); or 

13 ‘‘(iii) administering or supplying to an 

14 individual medications for the purpose de15 scribed in clause (i), including— 

16 ‘‘(I) GnRH agonists or other pu17 berty-blocking drugs to stop or delay 

18 normal puberty; 

19 ‘‘(II) testosterone or other andro20 gens to biological females at doses 

21 that are supraphysiologic to the fe22 male sex; or 

23 ‘‘(III) estrogen to biological 

24 males at doses that are supraphysio25 logic to the male sex. 


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1 ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) 

2 shall not apply to the following individuals: 

3 ‘‘(i) An individual with external bio4 logical sex characteristics that are 

5 irresolvably ambiguous, such as those born 

6 with 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 

7 46 XY chromosomes with undervirilization, 

8 or having both ovarian and testicular tis9 sue. 

10 ‘‘(ii) An individual with respect to 

11 whom a physician has determined through 

12 genetic or biochemical testing that the in13 dividual does not have normal sex chro14 mosome structure, sex steroid hormone 

15 production, or sex steroid hormone action 

16 for a biological male or biological female. 

17 ‘‘(2) MINOR.—The term ‘minor’ means any per18 son under the age of eighteen years.’’; and 

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

20 chapter by adding at the end the following: 

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

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