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Union Calendar No. 265 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3492 
[Report No. 119–311] 
To amend section 116 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to 
genital and bodily mutilation and chemical castration of minors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 19, 2025 
Ms. GREENE of Georgia (for herself, Mr. CRANE, Mr. FINSTAD, Mrs. LUNA, 
Mrs. BICE, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. MCGUIRE, Mr. 
KUSTOFF, Mr. BIGGS of Arizona, Mr. BURLISON, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. HIG-
GINS of Louisiana, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. WEBER of Texas, 
Mr. HARRIS of Maryland, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. HERN of Oklahoma, Mr. 
COLLINS, Mr. OGLES, Mr. BABIN, Mr. CLYDE, Ms. DE LA CRUZ, Ms. 
HAGEMAN, Mr. OWENS, Mr. PALMER, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. 
MILLER of Ohio, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. JACKSON of Texas, Mr. MOORE of 
West Virginia, Mr. COMER, Mr. GILL of Texas, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. 
MCDOWELL, Mrs. HARSHBARGER, and Mr. GOODEN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 
Additional sponsors: Mr. RULLI, Mr. GUEST, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. 
CARTER of Georgia, Mr. GOSAR, and Mrs. HINSON 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To amend section 116 of title 18, United States Code, with 
respect to genital and bodily mutilation and chemical 
castration of minors. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Children’s Inno-
cence Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GENITAL AND BODILY MUTILATION OF A MINOR; 
CHEMICAL CASTRATION OF A MINOR. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 116 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 116. Genital and bodily mutilation of a minor; 
chemical castration of a minor 
‘‘(a) GENITAL OR BODILY MUTILATION.—Except as 
provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance 
described in subsection (d), knowingly performs, or at-
tempts to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another 
person who is a minor, shall be fined under this title, im-
prisoned not more than 10 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) CHEMICAL CASTRATION OF A MINOR.—Except as 
provided in subsection (g), whoever, in any circumstance 
described in subsection (d), knowingly chemically castrates 
a minor shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more 
than 10 years, or both. 
‘‘(c) CERTAIN OFFENSE RELATED TO FEMALE GEN-
ITAL MUTILATION.—Except as provided in subsection (g), 
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whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (d), 
knowingly— 
‘‘(1) facilitates or consents to female genital mu-
tilation of a minor; or 
‘‘(2) transports a minor for the purpose of the 
performance of female genital mutilation on such 
minor, 
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 
10 years, or both. 
‘‘(d) CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED.—For the purposes 
of subsections (a) and (b), the circumstances described in 
this subsection are that— 
‘‘(1) the defendant or victim traveled in inter-
state or foreign commerce, or traveled using a means, 
channel, facility, or instrumentality of interstate or 
foreign commerce, in furtherance of or in connection 
with the conduct described in subsection (a) or (b); 
‘‘(2) the defendant used a means, channel, facil-
ity, or instrumentality of interstate or foreign com-
merce in furtherance of or in connection with the con-
duct described in subsection (a) or (b); 
‘‘(3) any payment of any kind was made, di-
rectly or indirectly, in furtherance of or in connection 
with the conduct described in subsection (a) or (b) 
using any means, channel, facility, or instrumen-
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tality of interstate or foreign commerce or in or af-
fecting interstate or foreign commerce; 
‘‘(4) the defendant transmitted in interstate or 
foreign commerce any communication relating to or 
in furtherance of the conduct described in subsection 
(a) or (b) using any means, channel, facility, or in-
strumentality of interstate or foreign commerce or in 
or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any 
means or in manner, including by computer, mail, 
wire, or electromagnetic transmission; 
‘‘(5) any instrument, item, substance, or other 
object that has traveled in interstate or foreign com-
merce was used to perform the conduct described in 
subsection (a) or (b); 
‘‘(6) the conduct described in subsection (a) or 
(b) occurred within the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States, or any terri-
tory or possession of the United States; or 
‘‘(7) the conduct described in subsection (a) or 
(b) otherwise occurred in or affected interstate or for-
eign commerce. 
‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN DEFENSE.—It shall 
not be a defense to a prosecution under subsection (a) that 
female genital mutilation is required as a matter of reli-
gion, custom, tradition, ritual, or standard practice. 
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‘‘(f) PROHIBITION ON PROSECUTION OF VICTIM.—No 
person who is chemically castrated or on whom genital or 
bodily mutilation is performed may be arrested or pros-
ecuted for an offense under this section. 
‘‘(g) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(1) PROCEDURES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Genital or bodily muti-
lation or chemical castration is not a violation 
of this section if such genital or bodily mutila-
tion or chemical castration is— 
‘‘(i) necessary to the health of the 
minor on whom it is conducted, and is con-
ducted by a person licensed in the place of 
such conduct as a medical practitioner; or 
‘‘(ii) in the case of female genital muti-
lation, performed on a minor in labor or 
who has just given birth and is performed 
for medical purposes connected with that 
labor or birth by a person licensed in the 
place it is performed as a medical practi-
tioner, midwife, or person in training to be-
come such a practitioner or midwife. 
‘‘(B) HEALTH OF A MINOR.—For the pur-
poses of subparagraph (A), the health of a minor 
does not include— 
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‘‘(i) mental, behavioral, or emotional 
distress; or 
‘‘(ii) a mental, behavioral, or emo-
tional disorder. 
‘‘(2) EXEMPTION.—Genital or bodily mutilation 
or chemical castration is not a violation of this sec-
tion if such genital or bodily mutilation or chemical 
castration is conducted with respect to any of the fol-
lowing individuals: 
‘‘(A) An individual with both ovarian and 
testicular tissue. 
‘‘(B) An individual with respect to whom a 
physician has determined through genetic or bio-
chemical testing that the individual does not 
have normal sex chromosome structure, sex ster-
oid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone 
action. 
‘‘(C) An individual experiencing infection, 
disease, injury, or disorder caused or exacerbated 
by a previous genital or bodily mutilation proce-
dure or chemical castration. 
‘‘(D) An individual suffering from a phys-
ical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness 
that would, as certified by a physician, place the 
individual in imminent danger of impairment of 
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a major bodily function unless the procedure is 
performed. 
‘‘(E) An individual diagnosed with pre-
cocious puberty, to the extent such genital or 
bodily mutilation or chemical castration is for 
the purpose of normalizing puberty. 
‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) GENITAL
OR
BODILY
MUTILATION.—The 
term ‘genital or bodily mutilation’ means, with re-
spect to an individual, any of the following: 
‘‘(A) Female genital mutilation. 
‘‘(B) Any surgery performed for the purpose 
of changing the body of such individual to cor-
respond to a sex that differs from their biological 
sex, including— 
‘‘(i) castration; 
‘‘(ii) orchiectomy; 
‘‘(iii) scrotoplasty; 
‘‘(iv) vasectomy; 
‘‘(v) hysterectomy; 
‘‘(vi) oophorectomy; 
‘‘(vii) ovariectomy; 
‘‘(viii) metoidioplasty; 
‘‘(ix) penectomy; 
‘‘(x) phalloplasty; 
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‘‘(xi) vaginoplasty; 
‘‘(xii) vaginectomy; 
‘‘(xiii) vulvoplasty; 
‘‘(xiv) reduction thyrochondroplasty; 
‘‘(xv) chondrolaryngoplasty; and 
‘‘(xvi) mastectomy. 
‘‘(C) Any plastic surgery that feminizes or 
masculinizes the facial or other physiological fea-
tures for the purposes described in subparagraph 
(B). 
‘‘(D) Any placement of chest implants to 
create feminine breasts for the purposes described 
in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(E) Any placement of fat or artificial im-
plants in the gluteal region for the purposes de-
scribed in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(F) Any surgery to reconstruct the fixed 
part of the urethra, whether or not such surgery 
includes a metoidioplasty or a phalloplasty, for 
the purposes described in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(2) CHEMICAL CASTRATION.— The term ‘chem-
ical castration’ means administering, supplying, pre-
scribing, dispensing, distributing, or otherwise con-
veying to an individual medications for the purposes 
described in paragraph (1)(B), including— 
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‘‘(A) 
gonadotropin-releasing 
hormone 
(GnRH) analogues or other puberty-blocking 
drugs to stop or delay normal puberty; 
‘‘(B) testosterone or other androgens to bio-
logical females at doses that are supraphysiologic 
to the female sex; and 
‘‘(C) estrogen to biological males at doses 
that are supraphysiologic to the male sex. 
‘‘(3) BIOLOGICAL SEX.—The term ‘biological sex’ 
means, with respect to a person, the classification of 
the person as male or female at birth. 
‘‘(4) FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.—The term 
‘female genital mutilation’ means any procedure per-
formed for non-medical reasons that involves partial 
or total removal of, or other injury to, the external fe-
male genitalia, and includes— 
‘‘(A) a clitoridectomy or the partial or total 
removal of the clitoris or the prepuce or clitoral 
hood; 
‘‘(B) excision or the partial or total removal 
(with or without excision of the clitoris) of the 
labia minora or the labia majora, or both; 
‘‘(C) infibulation or the narrowing of the 
vaginal opening (with or without excision of the 
clitoris); or 
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‘‘(D) other procedures that are harmful to 
the external female genitalia, including pricking, 
incising, scraping, or cauterizing the genital 
area. 
‘‘(5) MINOR.—The term ‘minor’ means any per-
son under the age of eighteen years. 
‘‘(6) MALE.—The term ‘male’ means a person 
who naturally has, had, will have, or would have, but 
for a congenital anomaly, historical accident, or in-
tentional or unintentional disruption, the reproduc-
tive system that at some point produces, transports, 
and utilizes sperm for fertilization. 
‘‘(7) FEMALE.—The term ‘female’ means a per-
son who naturally has, had, will have, or would have, 
but for a congenital anomaly, historical accident, or 
intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproduc-
tive system that at some point produces, transports, 
and utilizes eggs for fertilization.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections for 
chapter 7 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking the item related to section 116 and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘116. Genital and bodily mutilation of a minor; chemical castration of a minor.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 265 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3492 
[Report No. 119–311] 
A BILL 
To amend section 116 of title 18, United States 
Code, with respect to genital and bodily mutila-
tion and chemical castration of minors. 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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