Rep. Dan Crenshaw today introduced H.R.7420 - The Stop Gender Trafficking of Minors Act, legislation to establish clear federal protections against the interstate transport of minors for irreversible gender transition medical procedures. The bill makes it a federal offense to knowingly transport a minor across state lines ... creates civil remedies for affected children and families.
I will push to make federal law prohibit knowingly transporting minors across state lines for gender transition procedures and create civil remedies for affected children and families.
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw today introduced H.R.7420 - The Stop Gender Trafficking of Minors Act, legislation to establish clear federal protections against the interstate transport of minors for irreversible gender transition medical procedures. The bill makes it a federal offense to knowingly transport a minor across state lines to obtain gender transition procedures intended to alter a child's sex characteristics in a manner inconsistent with their biological sex, creates civil remedies for affected children and families, and ensures federal taxpayer dollars are not used to subsidize or shield such practices by states or municipalities characterizing themselves as "transgender sanctuaries."
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Latest Action: 07/04/2025 Became Public Law No: 119-21. This act reduces taxes, reduces or increases spending for various federal programs, increases the statutory debt limit, and otherwise addresses agencies and programs throughout the federal government.
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The enacted text includes immigration-related transport language such as funding for "transportation costs and related costs associated with the departure or removal of aliens" and a separate fund for transporting certain aliens within the United States.
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The bill already passed in the House included a provision known as the Crenshaw Amendment, authored by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, that would have prohibited federal funding via Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA for gender-affirming care.
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GovInfo bill text shows Crenshaw introduced H.R. 7420 on February 9, 2026. The bill would add 18 U.S.C. 1205, criminalizing interstate or foreign-commerce transportation of a minor to facilitate a gender transition procedure, and would authorize civil actions by minors, parents, or guardians for injunctive relief, damages, and attorneys' fees.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.7420's sponsor as Rep. Dan Crenshaw, its latest action as February 9, 2026 referral to the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, and its tracker status as Introduced, with later steps including Passed House, Passed Senate, To President, and Became Law not completed.
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This bill has the status Introduced
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02/09/2026 Introduced in House
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Whoever knowingly transports in interstate or foreign commerce
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may bring a civil action
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currently under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives
Assessments
Crenshaw sponsored H.R. 7420 in the 119th Congress, and the introduced text closely matched the promise by proposing a federal criminal prohibition on transporting minors for gender transition procedures plus civil remedies for minors, parents, or guardians. However, the bill remained introduced/referred in committee and had not passed the House, Senate, gone to the President, or become federal law. That is a serious same-term legislative attempt, but the promised federal-law outcome was not delivered.
No evidence here shows federal law was enacted to prohibit knowingly transporting minors across state lines for gender transition procedures or to create the promised civil remedies. The cited enacted law from July 4, 2025 does not contain that policy, and its transport provisions are immigration-related instead. Crenshaw is credited with advancing a different transgender-care funding restriction, but that is not the same as delivering the specific interstate-transport and civil-remedy promise. Because the record provided shows policy activity in the broader issue area but not a serious attempt that matches the exact promised outcome, this falls short of delivery and does not merit an effort badge.