US HB8012 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on August 11 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-08-11 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

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.

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Title

Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2020

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History

DateChamberAction
2020-08-11HouseReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2020-08-11HouseIntroduced in House

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