I 
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. 
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 ‘‘Protecting Children 
From Experimentation Act of 2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. GENDER REASSIGNMENT MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS 
ON MINORS PROHIBITED. 
Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 2260B. Gender reassignment medical interventions 
on minors 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever knowingly performs 
any gender reassignment medical intervention on a minor 
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
5 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) PROHIBITION ON PROSECUTION OF PERSON ON 
WHOM INTERVENTION IS PERFORMED.—No person on 
whom the gender reassignment medical intervention under 
subsection (a) is performed may be arrested or prosecuted 
for an offense under this section. 
‘‘(c) CIVIL ACTION.—A person on whom a gender re-
assignment medical intervention is performed under this 
section may bring a civil action for appropriate relief 
against each person who performed the gender reassign-
ment medical intervention. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) GENDER REASSIGNMENT MEDICAL INTER-
VENTION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this 
chapter, except as provided in subparagraph 
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(B), the term ‘gender reassignment medical 
intervention’ means— 
‘‘(i) performing a surgery that steri-
lizes an individual, including castration, 
vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, 
metoidioplasty, penectomy, phalloplasty, 
and vaginoplasty, to change the body of 
such individual to correspond to a sex that 
is discordant with biological sex; 
‘‘(ii) performing a mastectomy on an 
individual for the purpose described in 
clause (i); or 
‘‘(iii) administering or supplying to an 
individual medications for the purpose de-
scribed in clause (i), including— 
‘‘(I) GnRH agonists or other pu-
berty-blocking drugs to stop or delay 
normal puberty; 
‘‘(II) testosterone or other andro-
gens to biological females at doses 
that are supraphysiologic to the fe-
male sex; or 
‘‘(III) 
estrogen 
to 
biological 
males at doses that are supraphysio-
logic to the male sex. 
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‘‘(B) 
EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph 
(A) 
shall not apply to the following individuals: 
‘‘(i) An individual with external bio-
logical 
sex 
characteristics 
that 
are 
irresolvably ambiguous, such as those born 
with 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 
46 XY chromosomes with undervirilization, 
or having both ovarian and testicular tis-
sue. 
‘‘(ii) An individual with respect to 
whom a physician has determined through 
genetic or biochemical testing that the in-
dividual does not have normal sex chro-
mosome structure, sex steroid hormone 
production, or sex steroid hormone action 
for a biological male or biological female. 
‘‘(2) MINOR.—The term ‘minor’ means any per-
son under the age of eighteen years.’’; and 
(2) by amending the table of sections for such 
chapter by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘2260B. Gender reassignment medical interventions on minors.’’. 
Æ 
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