House Advances ‘Chloe Cole Act’ Banning ‘Transgender’ Procedures For Minors

Advocates for children’s well-being celebrated the House Judiciary Committee’s vote in favor of the Chloe Cole Act. The bill, HR 7651, bans irreversible, body-mutilating ‘transgender’ procedures for minors.

The legislation also allows children damaged by these interventions to bring a civil suit against health professionals, hospitals or clinics up to 25 years after their 18th birthday. Parents or guardians may also file lawsuits.

The Act, sponsored by Missouri Rep. Bob Onder, has 86 sponsors and passed out of the committee on a strict party-line vote of 15-8 on June 15.

Cole, whose body was irreparably injured by transgender medical procedures, applauded the victory on X, saying “Thank you @JudiciaryGOP for standing up for future generations!”

The Chloe Cole Act has PASSED COMMITTEE! We are one step closer ensuring children in ALL of the United States are protected from transgender medical experimentation!

Thank you @JudiciaryGOP for standing up for future generations! https://t.co/ZKg4zK4UOM

— Chloe Cole (@ChloeCole) July 15, 2026

HR 7651 defines specific harmful transgender medical interventions that would be banned for minors and would allow for civil suits, including:

Intentionally delaying, halting, or disrupting the natural development of the individual’s body, including the onset or progression of puberty, so that it does not develop or halts developing to correspond to the individual’s sex.
Changing the individual’s body, including the individual’s external appearance or biological functions, to no longer correspond to the individual’s sex.
Providing puberty blockers or opposite sex hormones.
Surgical procedures that attempt to transform an individual’s physical appearance or that attempt to alter or remove an individual’s sexual organs.

On June 3, Cole testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in a hearing titled, “Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures on Minors.”

She told the committee:

As a child, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and underwent medical transition as a minor, including puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and an irreversible double mastectomy.

Cole was only 15 when she underwent surgery to remove her breasts, explaining that these interventions did nothing to help her sexual identity confusion:

The peace and self-acceptance I was promised did not come. I am now almost 22 years old, and I live every day with the consequences of decisions made when I was a minor.

Cole listed the bodily harms she has suffered from the transgender medical industry:

I have scars where healthy breasts used to be. I did not complete normal female puberty. I experience pain in my knees and hips that I associate with the treatment I received. I still live with trauma from what was done to my body. There are periods when I feel numb, have flashbacks, or experience nightmares.

She went on to explain that children “lack the maturity” to make decisions “that permanently alter their bodies and may affect their fertility, sexual function, and lifelong health.” She described her regret and the harassment she has received for speaking against harmful procedures.

Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, testified in favor of the bill, saying:

The harm any such ban would cause to transgender young people and their families is profound and unjustified.

Minter, a female attempting to live as a man, ignored the paucity of evidence in favor transgender interventions. And she completely overlooked recent studies and reviews, from Sweden, Finland, the U.K. and the U.S., showing the deep harms of medicalizing a mental health issue.

Dr. Kurt Miceli, MD, chief medical officer of Do No Harm, detailed the weak evidence for inflicting these medical procedures on children and stated they are “ideologically driven rather than grounded in emerging evidence.”

A companion bill, S 2907, has been sponsored in the Senate by Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

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