The House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., designed to protect children nationally from transgender procedures that disrupt children’s biology and development.
Greene’s legislation, called the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would make it a felony to perform surgery, administer medication, or provide other procedures to a child for the purpose of changing his or her body to correspond to a sex different from his or her biological sex.
The penalty for committing such a crime would be up to 10 years in federal prison and/or a fine.
Greene has led the effort in the House, but the Georgia congresswoman’s shocking resignation left many in Washington wondering if the Protect Children’s Innocence Act would get a vote before she resigned her seat on Jan. 5, 2026.
The Georgia congresswoman has pushed hard for a vote on this legislation that would enshrine into federal law some of what President Donald Trump wrote in an executive order issued in January. That executive order stopped the federal government’s support for transgender procedures for minors.
Greene’s bill is slated to get a vote on the House floor this week.
She secured a vote on the legislation from House leadership in exchange for her support of the National Defense Authorization Act, which is the legislation that governs the budget and expenditures for national defense.
The legislation redefines chemical castration and genital or bodily mutilation in the federal code, while providing clear exemptions for treatment of certain rare genetic conditions and medical emergencies testified to by a doctor. Importantly, there would not be exemptions for nebulous claims of mental health issues.
This means puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatments for children, which transgender advocates call “gender-affirming care,” would be banned by federal law.
“Left-wing activists and medical institutions are targeting America’s children with dangerous drugs, disfiguring surgeries, and permanent sterilization,” Greene said in a previous statement.
“My bill stops the mutilation of kids and holds those responsible for performing or facilitating these barbaric procedures accountable,” Greene added.
The bill has more than 40 co-sponsors in the House, including Reps. Mary Miller of Illinois, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Riley Moore of West Virginia, and Eric Burlison of Missouri.
The legislation has been endorsed by Citizens for Renewing America, the American Principles Project, Independent Women, Gays Against Groomers, CPAC, and Moms for Liberty.
The bill also prevents federal funds from being used for so-called gender-affirming care or to subsidize health insurance plans that cover such procedures. It prohibits federal employees and facilities from performing these procedures, and bars qualified health plans from providing coverage for gender-affirming care.
It also stops institutions of higher education that receive federal funding from offering instruction on gender-affirming care.
The bill would also empower minors who have had been subjected to transgender procedures to bring a civil action lawsuit against the perpetrators of the procedures for compensatory and punitive damages.
Furthermore, any non-U.S. national who performs such procedures would also be inadmissible and deportable under the proposed law.
If Greene’s bill fails, there are other bills to ban transgender procedures for minors that House Republicans could bring to the floor.
The Chloe Cole Act, for example, would prohibit medical institutions from performing transgender procedures on children and also provides a right of civil action for damages.