I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 742 
To prohibit Federal funds from being used to provide certain gender transition 
procedures to minors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2025 
Mr. MCCORMICK (for himself, Mr. CLYDE, Mrs. LUNA, Mr. SCOTT FRANKLIN 
of Florida, Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. FALLON, Mr. COLLINS, Mr. WEBER of 
Texas, Mr. HARRIS of Maryland, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. GUEST, Mr. 
ZINKE, Mr. BABIN, Mr. MOORE of West Virginia, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. NOR-
MAN, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mr. WIED, Mr. ROSE, 
Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. HAMADEH of Arizona, Mr. BAIRD, 
Mr. OWENS, Mr. GOODEN, Mr. JACKSON of Texas, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr. 
MCGUIRE, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. OGLES, and Mr. GOSAR) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To prohibit Federal funds from being used to provide certain 
gender transition procedures to minors. 
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 Resources 
Of Taxpayers to Eliminate Childhood Transgender Sur-
geries Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘PROTECTS Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITING FEDERAL FUNDS FROM BEING USED 
TO PROVIDE CERTAIN GENDER TRANSITION 
PROCEDURES TO MINORS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, no Federal funds may be used or otherwise 
made available to provide or refer for a specified gender 
transition procedure to an individual under the age of 18 
or to reimburse any entity for providing such a procedure 
to such an individual. 
(b) SPECIFIED GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURE 
DEFINED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this para-
graph, except as provided in paragraph (2), the term 
‘‘specified gender transition procedure’’ means, with 
respect to an individual, any of the following when 
performed for the purpose of intentionally changing 
the body of such individual to no longer correspond 
to their sex: 
(A) Performing any surgery, including— 
(i) castration; 
(ii) orchiectomy; 
(iii) scrotoplasty; 
(iv) vasectomy; 
(v) hysterectomy; 
(vi) oophorectomy; 
(vii) ovariectomy; 
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(viii) metoidioplasty; 
(ix) penectomy; 
(x) phalloplasty; 
(xi) vaginoplasty; 
(xii) vaginectomy; 
(xiii) vulvoplasty; 
(xiv) reduction thyrochondroplasty; 
(xv) chondrolaryngoplasty; 
(xvi) mastectomy; and 
(xvii) any plastic, cosmetic, or aes-
thetic 
surgery 
that 
feminizes 
or 
masculinizes the facial or other body fea-
tures of an individual. 
(B) Any placement of chest implants to 
create feminine breasts. 
(C) Any placement of fat or artificial im-
plants in the gluteal region. 
(D) Administering, supplying, prescribing, 
dispensing, distributing, or otherwise conveying 
to an individual medications, including— 
(i) 
gonadotropin-releasing 
hormone 
(GnRH) analogues or other puberty-block-
ing drugs to stop or delay normal puberty; 
and 
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(ii) testosterone, estrogen, or other 
androgens to an individual at doses that 
are supraphysiologic than would normally 
be produced endogenously in a healthy in-
dividual of the same age and sex. 
(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply to the following when furnished to an indi-
vidual by a health care provider with the consent of 
such individual’s parent or legal guardian: 
(A) Puberty suppression or blocking pre-
scription drugs for the purpose of normalizing 
puberty for an individual experiencing pre-
cocious puberty. 
(B) Appropriate and medically necessary 
procedures or treatments to correct for— 
(i) a medically verifiable genetic dis-
order of sex development, including— 
(I) 46,XX chromosomes with 
virilization; 
(II) 46,XY chromosomes with 
undervirilization; and 
(III) both ovarian and testicular 
tissue; 
(ii) sex chromosome structure, sex 
steroid hormone production, or sex hor-
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mone action, if determined to be abnormal 
by a physician through genetic or bio-
chemical testing; or 
(iii) infection, disease, injury, or dis-
order caused or exacerbated by a previous 
procedure described in paragraph (1), or a 
physical disorder, physical injury, or phys-
ical illness that would, as certified by a 
physician, place the individual in imminent 
danger of death or impairment of a major 
bodily function unless the procedure is per-
formed, not including procedures per-
formed for the alleviation of mental dis-
tress. 
(3) CERTAIN TERMS.—For purposes of this sec-
tion: 
(A) SEX.—The term ‘‘sex’’, when referring 
to individual’s sex, shall be understood to refer 
to either male or female, as biologically deter-
mined. 
(B) FEMALE.—The term ‘‘female’’, when 
referring to a natural person, means an indi-
vidual who naturally has, had, will have, or 
would have, but for a developmental or genetic 
anomaly or historical accident, the reproductive 
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system that at some point produces, transports, 
and utilizes eggs for fertilization. 
(C) MALE.—The term ‘‘male’’, when refer-
ring to a natural person, means an individual 
who naturally has, had, will have, or would 
have, but for a developmental or genetic anom-
aly or historical accident, the reproductive sys-
tem that at some point produces, transports, 
and utilizes sperm for fertilization. 
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