Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2020
This bill establishes a new criminal offense for performing gender reassignment medical interventions on minors. It also provides that a minor who receives such an intervention may bring a civil action against each person who performed that intervention.
The bill defines these interventions as certain surgeries or the use of hormones to change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. It excludes, however, interventions in cases where an individual has ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or where a physician has determined that an individual does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action.
An individual who performs these interventions on a minor is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.
A minor who receives these medical interventions may not be arrested or prosecuted for an offense under this bill.
[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8012 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8012
To amend chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit
gender reassignment medical interventions on minors, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 11, 2020
Mr. LaMalfa (for himself, Mr. Norman, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Spano, Mr.
Allen, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Steube, Mr. Flores, and Mr. Hice of
Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
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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 Representatives 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 2020''.
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:
``Sec. 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 reassignment medical
intervention is performed under this section may bring a civil action
for appropriate relief against each person who performed the gender
reassignment medical intervention.
``(d) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) Gender reassignment medical intervention.--
``(A) In general.--For purposes of this chapter,
except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term
`gender reassignment medical intervention' means--
``(i) performing a surgery that sterilizes
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
described in clause (i), including--
``(I) GnRH agonists or other
puberty-blocking drugs to stop or delay
normal puberty;
``(II) testosterone or other
androgens to biological females at
doses that are supraphysiologic to the
female sex; or
``(III) estrogen to biological
males at doses that are
supraphysiologic to the male sex.
``(B) Exception.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply
to the following individuals:
``(i) An individual with external
biological 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 tissue.
``(ii) An individual with respect to whom a
physician has determined through genetic or
biochemical testing that the individual does
not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex
steroid hormone production, or sex steroid
hormone action for a biological male or
biological female.
``(2) Minor.--The term `minor' means any person 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.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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