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Chloe Cole Act of 2026
This bill allows individuals who received gender-affirming medical treatments as minors—or their parents—to sue the healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinics involved in federal court. Patients can seek financial compensation for medical costs to reverse or undo procedures, damages for emotional distress, and punitive damages. For care provided after the law takes effect, providers face strict financial liability, and individuals have until at least age 43 or four years after paying for reversal treatments to file a claim.
People affected—Not determinable from the text provided; the bill applies nationwide to healthcare providers, facilities, and patients involved in covered youth medical interventions, but contains no population statistics or caseload estimates.
Fiscal magnitude—no CBO estimate published
Reach78provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
LGBTQ+ policy−75Courts & liability+65
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- individuals who received gender-transition interventions as minors and their parents or legal guardiansGrants the right to sue healthcare professionals, hospitals, and clinics in federal court for compensatory damages (including detransition costs), non-economic damages, and punitive damages for gender-transition procedures received as a minor, with a statute of limitations extending up to 25 years after turning 18 or 4 years after detransition costs (Sec. 3(a), 3(b), Sec. 5).
Who it burdens
- healthcare professionals, hospitals, and clinics participating in youth gender-transition interventionsFaces civil liability in federal court for past and future youth gender-transition interventions, strict liability for post-enactment procedures unless proven exempt by clear and convincing evidence, an inability to use liability waivers, and the loss of deference to prevailing medical standards of care for pre-enactment procedures (Sec. 3(a)-(c), Sec. 4(a)-(c)).