Empower Parents to Protect their Kids Act of 2025
A bill to require local educational agencies, State educational agencies, and other governmental education entities to respect the rights of parents regarding gender transition, and for other purposes.
119th Congress
No Federal funds shall be made available to any elementary school or secondary school unless the elementary school or secondary school, with respect to students enrolled at the school who have not yet reached 18 years of age, complies with each of the following requirements: (1) School employees do not proceed with any accommodation intended to affirm a student’s purported "identity" that is incongruent with the student’s sex, or any action to facilitate or otherwise aid and abet a minor in adopting such an identity, including referral or recommendation to any third party medical provider for a gender transition procedure, unless the employees have received express pa19 rental consent to do so. (2) School employees do not facilitate, encourage, or coerce students to withhold information from their parents regarding the student’s purported identity when it is incongruent with the student’s sex. (3) School employees do not withhold or hide information from parents about a student’s discomfort with their sex, their desire for an identity that is incongruent with their sex, their profession of an identity that is incongruent with their sex, or their desire to undergo a gender transition procedure. (4) School employees do not encourage, pressure, or coerce the parents of students, or students themselves, to proceed with any intervention to affirm the student’s adoption of an identity that is in11 congruent with their sex.
History
Date | Action |
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2025-09-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |