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HR 653 · in committee · significant

Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • Doctors who perform gender-transition procedures on minors become liable for resulting harms for 30 years after the patient turns 18.
  • States that require gender-transition procedures for minors lose federal health department funding.
  • The bill defines gender-transition procedures as surgeries or hormone therapies but excludes treatments for intersex conditions and medical emergencies.

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  1. 01

    How would the 30-year liability window affect doctors' willingness to offer hormone therapies to transgender minors, and what alternatives might patients face?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists about long-term outcomes of gender-transition procedures in minors to support or challenge the need for extended liability provisions?

  3. 03

    Which states currently require gender-transition procedures for minors, and how would loss of federal health department funding impact their broader healthcare systems?

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Sponsor · R-TX-36

Brian Babin

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Introduced 2025-01-23

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  2. 2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  5. 2025-01-23 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  6. 2025-01-23 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  7. 2025-01-23 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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