“To amend chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit gender transition procedures on minors, and for other purposes.”
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This section establishes a new federal criminal offense (18 U.S.C. §2260B) prohibiting any physical or mental health care professional from knowingly performing or aiding and abetting a gender transition procedure on a minor if an interstate or foreign commerce nexus exists (e.g., interstate travel, payment, communication, or use of interstate goods in furtherance of the procedure), with penalties of a fine, imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both. It authorizes the minor (or person on whom the procedure was performed) to bring a civil action for relief against the performer and excludes from the prohibition procedures for diagnosed disorders of sex development (e.g., irresolvably ambiguous genitalia or abnormal sex chromosomes/hormones). "Gender transition procedure" is defined to include puberty blockers, supraphysiologic cross-sex hormones, and 33 specified surgeries (e.g., castration, hysterectomy, vaginoplasty, mastectomy) but excludes treatment of infections, injuries, or diseases caused or exacerbated by such procedures when consented to by the patient or guardian.