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<item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="1926" measure-id="id117hr1926" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2021-03-16" update-date="2021-09-08">
<title>Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021</title>
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<action-date>2021-03-16</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2021</strong></p> <p>This bill 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>An individual who performs these interventions on a minor is subject to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.</p> <p>A minor who receives these medical interventions may not be arrested or prosecuted for an offense under this bill. </p>]]></summary-text>
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