S 209 · Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Introduced
- Jan 23, 2025
- Latest action
- Jan 23, 2025
- Sponsor
- Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]
- Policy area
- Health
- Cosponsors
- 3
Summary
Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025 This bill makes a medical practitioner who performs a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is less than 18 years of age liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms from the procedure for 30 years after the individual turns 18. Additionally, if a state requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, that state shall be ineligible for federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the bill, g ender-transition procedures generally include certain surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. They exclude, however, interventions to treat (1) individuals who either have ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or lack a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action; (2) infections, injuries, diseases, or disorders caused by a gender-transition procedure; or (3) a physical disorder, injury, or illness that places an individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function.
Recent actions
- Jan 23, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- Jan 23, 2025 Introduced in Senate
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.