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S. 209 119th Congress Senate

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to protect children from medical malpractice in the form of gender-transition procedures.

Introduced: January 23, 2025 Introduced by: Tom Cotton Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
Health Child healthCivil actions and liabilityHealth care qualityHealth personnel
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Jan 23, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 23, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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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, gender-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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 653 Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
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 Lobbying activity 7

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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    for HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30)

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Banks, Jim
Indiana · Jan 23, 2025
Mullin, Markwayne
· Jan 23, 2025
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Sheehy, Tim
Montana · Jan 23, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 209: Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-209/
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"S. 209: Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-209/.
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S. 209, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-209/.
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[S. 209: Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-209/)
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