KEY VOTE: Cosponsorship of the Chloe Cole Act of 2026 (H.R. 7651)

The Chloe Cole Act of 2026 (H.R. 7651) introduced by Congressman Bob Onder (R-Missouri) creates a federal civil liability framework to sue medical providers responsible for prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or performing sex-rejecting surgeries when the patient was under the age of 18. This legislation would allow families to seek financial damages for the lasting harm caused by this medical malpractice, which can result in devastating lifelong consequences. The extended statute of limitations in the bill permits suits to be brought even many years later after the intervention. This legislation codifies a directive from Executive Order 14187 “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” signed by President Donald Trump, calling for “a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation.”

For years, the gender industrial complex has sold a lie, often targeted at minors, that they needed to take aggressive hormones and undergo invasive procedures to align their body with an internal reality, masking a deep pain and mental anguish. Through the propagation of politicized science under the direction of legacy medical institutions, individuals and their families were pushed into destructive interventions that permanently altered their bodies and often removed their ability to have children. These experimental procedures were completed under the auspices of producing a better livelihood for the patient, but the recent stories of detransitioners, including the bill’s namesake Chloe Cole, have provided a more sobering view.

The Chloe Cole Act provides victims a remedy to recover damages for the wrongs committed against them in the name of “gender-affirming care” through a private right of action to sue the medical practitioners, hospitals, and clinics that participated in those interventions. The civil liability method of enforcement strikes directly at the profit motive of the experimental sex-rejecting gender cult. Vulnerable children must not be given over as the cash cow to a billion-dollar industry that profits from the destruction of children’s bodies.

Chloe Cole and many others who have survived these traumatic procedures have become brave warriors against the medical institutions that allowed their bodies to be subjected to barbaric interventions that permanently altered their bodies. The long-term impacts of these drugs and procedures are yet to be known, but their advocacy has already saved lives by sharing the truth previously silenced by the gender industrial complex. While malpractice lawsuits like the Varian case, which awarded a victim $2 million dollars for damages related to a sex-rejecting surgery, are promising, the Chloe Cole Act of 2026 would be a major step forward to finally stop this industrial-scale profiteering.