# H.R. 3492 (119th): Protect Children’s Innocence Act of 2025

Protect Children’s Innocence Act of 2025 This bill establishes federal criminal offenses for providing gender-affirming care to minors. The bill also changes the existing federal criminal offense that prohibits female genital mutilation (FGM) and related conduct. Specifically, the bill makes it a federal crime to knowingly perform or attempt to perform procedures or provide medications (e.g., hormonal treatments) to a minor for the purpose of changing their body to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex. The bill provides exceptions for specified types of surgeries or procedures, including those for treating (1) individuals who have both ovarian and testicular tissue or abnormal sex chromosome structure or hormones, or (2) infections or other harms that result from a previous gender-transition procedure. A violation is punishable by a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both. The bill prohibits the arrest or prosecution of an individual who undergoes gender-affirming procedures or medications. Additionally, the bill makes changes to the existing federal criminal prohibition on performing FGM on a minor and related conduct. Among the changes, the bill broadens the scope of prohibited conduct to include the facilitation or consent to FGM by any person (currently, prohibited facilitation or consent applies only to a parent, guardian, or caretaker of the minor). The bill also prohibits the arrest or prosecution of an individual who undergoes FGM. The bill does not change the applicable criminal penalty of a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: capped at tier 2.
Lane: abuse_accountability. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: child_protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: defends_children. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: female_genital_mutilation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: gender_transition_minors. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: tier2. Signed by Adam Malin on 2026-10-21.
Sign-off reason: No Tier 1 sign-off. It is mixed. The "otherwise conveying ... medications" clause in (h)(2), combined with aiding-and-abetting law, could reach parents, and the text does not exclude that, so a good-faith Christian could vote nay over that means without opposing the protection.
Cap: tier 2 at full tier-2 weight. Exposure and points are not halved. It cannot be a Tier 1 or disqualifying event.
Matched vehicle: this bill stays a matched vehicle.
Review note: Protect Children's Innocence Act. Adam Malin, 2026-10-21: no Tier 1 sign-off. It is mixed. The "otherwise conveying ... medications" clause in (h)(2), combined with aiding-and-abetting law, could reach parents, and the text does not exclude that, so a good-faith Christian could vote nay over that means without opposing the protection. Cap it at tier 2 so it can never be a Tier 1 or disqualifying event, and count it at full tier-2 weight. Its exposure and its points are not halved, for any member. It stays a matched vehicle with H.R. 498. The same rule applies to every member.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Procedural polarity: matched with hr-498-119.
For each member, the latest polarity-known vote among cloture, the motion to proceed, and passage governs a matched group, or the bill alone when it is not in a group. A supporting latest vote, including a cloture yea, counts as support on every vehicle in the group. An opposing latest vote removes earlier support, including an earlier amendment yea. Members vote only in their own chamber. A procedural yea that would be Tier 1 is at most tier 2 when a later governing vote on a matched vehicle opposes; the vote is not erased.
Tested-record vehicle: a recorded yea or nay on this bill counts toward a Qualified label. A member with no recorded yea or nay on a key life or child-protection vehicle keeps the score and is shown as Not yet tested on life and child-protection votes.
Roll 350: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 351: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The core operative provisions criminalize gender-transition procedures and medications for minors, which directly restrains bodily harm to children. The FGM amendments broaden liability for facilitating a recognized child-mutilating practice, which also restrains harm. The bar on prosecuting the individual who undergoes these procedures is a meaningful qualification but does not reverse the bill's protective direction, so the overall measure is classified as good with moderate confidence.
Theological note: Scripture calls God's people to protect the vulnerable, including children, from bodily harm and from being led into deception about the body as God created it. Because the bill targets medical and surgical alteration of minors' bodies, it bears on the duty to guard the young from harm and on the created order of sex. The FGM provisions bear on bodily violation of children. The question is whether the measure restrains harm to minors, which the bill's core provisions appear to do, while the prosecution-bar language raises separate questions of equity that should be read in the text.

## Recorded votes

Roll 350: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 210 · Nay 218 · Other 5.
Roll 351: On Passage. Yea 216 · Nay 211 · Other 6.

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