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119-hr-8573119th CongressWALLET

STOP Act

Sponsored By: Representative Harshbarger, Diana [R-TN-1]

Introduced

Summary

Bans gender transition procedures for minors. The bill would bar anyone from performing, aiding, or facilitating medical or surgical gender transition procedures on people under 18 and pairs that ban with civil penalties and a grant program to support detransition care.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.

Definitions for transition and detransition

If enacted, the bill would set detailed definitions that decide which services count as a "gender transition procedure" and what counts as "detransition treatment." The definition lists many hormonal and surgical examples, like puberty blockers, high‑dose sex hormones, mastectomy, hysterectomy, vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, sterilization, and removal of otherwise healthy tissue. It would also define "caretaker" and say detransition treatment includes mental health, medical, or surgical care to stop or reverse effects of prior procedures. The text also lists exclusions, including care for disorders of sex development, reconstruction after prior procedures, treatment for infections or injuries caused by prior procedures, puberty suppression for precocious puberty, male circumcision, and urgent care to prevent death or major impairment.

Ban on gender procedures for minors

If enacted, the bill would bar anyone from knowingly performing, attempting, aiding, abetting, or conspiring to perform gender transition procedures on people under 18. The ban would apply when the act used interstate or foreign commerce, like travel across state lines, mail or computer communications, payments that crossed state lines, or items that moved in commerce. It would also cover actions in U.S. territories and the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction. "Knowingly" would mean actual knowledge or facts that a reasonable person in the situation would know.

Employer liability for worker violations

If enacted, the bill would make employers legally responsible when an employee breaks the law while acting in the scope of their job. The employer and the employee would be jointly and severally liable for civil penalties and for private lawsuits under the Act. The same rule would apply when a person hires a contractor or other paid worker and that worker acts within the scope of the hired performance.

Free grants for detransition support

If enacted, the bill would direct HHS to run a grant program to help people seeking to reverse gender transition procedures. Grants would go to private nonprofit groups that agree to provide free services paid by the grant, submit deidentified data, protect privacy, and give accurate information about reversal care. Grant money could pay for medical advice and care to reverse transition procedures, education and job supports (including help to finish high school), and voluntary mental health or substance use services. Groups that perform or promote transition procedures, or that perform most abortions (with narrow rape/incest and life‑threat exceptions), could not get grants.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Harshbarger, Diana [R-TN-1]

TN • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. McDowell, Addison P. [R-NC-6]

    NC • R

    Sponsored 4/29/2026

  • Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3]

    IN • R

    Sponsored 4/29/2026

  • Rep. Miller, Mary E. [R-IL-15]

    IL • R

    Sponsored 4/29/2026

  • Rep. Fry, Russell [R-SC-7]

    SC • R

    Sponsored 4/30/2026

  • Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]

    FL • R

    Sponsored 5/4/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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