Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
In Committee
Introduced:Jan 23, 2025
Primary Sponsor
Tom Cotton
Senator
Republican
AR
Cosponsors
3
Quick Stats
Policy Area
Health
Summary
This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical conditions.
Latest Action
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
AI Summary
Plain-English explanation of this bill
This bill makes practitioners liable for 30 years after a minor turns 18 for harms from gender-transition procedures performed on those under 18. States requiring such procedures lose HHS federal funding. Procedures exclude treatments for certain medical conditions.
Last updated: 1/5/2026
Official Summary
Congressional Research Service summary
<p><strong>Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Under the bill, <em>g</em><em>ender-transition procedures</em> 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.</p>
Key Points
Main provisions of the bill
Creates 30-year liability for gender-transition procedures on minors
Cuts HHS funding to states requiring such procedures
Defines gender-transition procedures as surgeries and hormones
Excludes treatments for certain intersex conditions
Applies to individuals under 18 years old
How This Impacts Americans
Potential effects on citizens and communities
Physicians could face liability for decades after performing gender-transition procedures on minors. States mandating such care would lose federal health funding. Medical practitioners would face significant new legal risks.
Policy Areas
Primary Policy Area
Health
Related Subjects
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Health care quality
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations
Scope & Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction Level
federal
Congressional Session
119th Congress
Citation Reference
209, 119th Congress (2025). "Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-s-209
