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US SB209
Bill
AI Summary
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Creates a private right of action allowing individuals who received gender-transition procedures as minors to sue medical practitioners for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, and attorney's fees
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Establishes a 30-year statute of limitations from the date the individual turns 18 to file civil lawsuits for physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms resulting from such procedures
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Prohibits federal law from requiring medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, protecting their freedom of conscience
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Strips all Department of Health and Human Services federal funding from any state that requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures
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Defines gender-transition procedures as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries performed to change the body to conform to a gender identity at odds with biological sex, with exceptions for intersex conditions and life-threatening emergencies
Legislative Description
Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025
Health
Last Action
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
1/23/2025