S. 457: Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

This bill retroactively makes certain health care facilities and medical practitioners liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms caused by performing a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is younger than 18. The liability extends for 30 years after the individual who received the procedure turns 18, and it applies to procedures that occurred prior to the enactment of the bill.

Specifically, the liability applies to

• pediatric gender clinics (medical facilities specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of gender discordance and dysphoria in minors) that provide gender-transition procedures;
• institutions of higher education and hospitals affiliated with those clinics, and
• medical practitioners who perform gender-transition procedures and those who administer health care related to the procedures at pediatric gender clinics.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.