Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

This bill creates a federal tort allowing individuals to sue pediatric gender clinics, medical practitioners, hospitals, and institutions of higher education for bodily injury or mental health harm caused by gender-transition procedures performed on them when they were minors. It also prohibits federal funding for such clinics, affiliated entities, and procedures on minors, and applies retroactively to procedures before, on, or after the bill's enactment.

Sec. 2, Federal tort for harm to children caused by gender-transition procedures: Defines "gender-transition procedure" as puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries to change the body to conform to a subjective identity at odds with biological sex, with exceptions for ambiguous biological sex characteristics, treatment of complications, or imminent danger. Defines "minor" as under 18. Makes liable pediatric gender clinics, medical practitioners, affiliated institutions of higher education and hospitals, and the performing practitioner. Allows a private right of action within 30 years after turning 18 for compensatory and punitive damages and attorney's fees. Provides an affirmative defense if the clinic or practitioner did not know and had no reason to know the individual was a minor.

Sec. 3, Prohibition on funding: No federal funds may go to a pediatric gender clinic, to an institution of higher education or hospital affiliated with such a clinic, or for any gender-transition procedure on a minor.

Sec. 4, Effective date and retroactive application: The bill takes effect on enactment and applies to any gender-transition procedure that took place before, on, or after that date.

Sec. 5, Severability: If any provision is held unconstitutional, the rest of the Act remains in effect.