Protect Children’s Innocence Act

This bill rewrites the federal crime at Section 116 of title 18 to make it a felony to perform gender-transition surgeries or administer transition-related drugs to anyone under 18. It sets a penalty of a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both for knowingly performing genital or bodily mutilation on a minor, for chemically castrating a minor, or for facilitating, consenting to, or transporting a minor for female genital mutilation. The offense reaches conduct connected to interstate or foreign commerce, including travel, payments, communications, or instruments that crossed state lines. The bill defines genital or bodily mutilation to include female genital mutilation and, separately, a list of surgeries performed to change a person's body to a sex differing from their biological sex, such as castration, hysterectomy, mastectomy, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty, along with feminizing or masculinizing facial surgery and chest or gluteal implants for those purposes. It defines chemical castration to include puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex testosterone given to biological females, and cross-sex estrogen given to biological males. The minor who receives the procedure may not be arrested or prosecuted. Exceptions cover care necessary to a minor's physical health, births, and specified intersex or precocious-puberty conditions, and the bill states that a minor's health does not include mental, behavioral, or emotional distress or disorder.

At least 17 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 42 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 16 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: American Civil Liberties Union; Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; National Council of Jewish Women; Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Human Rights Campaign. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 12 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.