A resolution designating March 12, 2026, as "Detransition Awareness Day".

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 643 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 643

     Designating March 12, 2026, as ``Detransition Awareness Day''.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 16, 2026

 Mrs. Blackburn submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION

 
     Designating March 12, 2026, as ``Detransition Awareness Day''.

Whereas gender ideology has resulted in irreparable harm to individuals, 
        especially minors;
Whereas no child should be pushed into irreversible chemical and surgical 
        procedures, sex change interventions, or receiving hormones or puberty 
        blockers;
Whereas the influence of social media and other online platforms has perpetuated 
        harms that gender ideology poses to children;
Whereas medical interventions by healthcare professionals, under the guise of 
        ``gender affirming care'', have damaged the healthy bodily and hormonal 
        development of children;
Whereas many minors seeking to transition have a history of 1 or more mental 
        health disorders, including gender dysphoria, anxiety, depression, body 
        dysmorphia, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts;
Whereas, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, ``Sex-
        rejecting procedures on children--which include puberty blockers, cross-
        sex hormones, and surgical operations--expose them to irreversible 
        damage, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone 
        density, altered brain development, and other irreversible physiological 
        effects'';
Whereas, since 2013, the rate of gender dysphoria in children has dramatically 
        increased;
Whereas about 42,000 children and teens across the United States received a 
        gender dysphoria diagnosis in 2021, which is nearly triple the number of 
        gender dysphoria diagnoses that occurred in 2017, according to Reuters;
Whereas at least 121,882 children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender 
        dysphoria from 2017 through 2021, with similar data from diagnoses 
        covered by Medicaid, according to Reuters;
Whereas at least 14,726 of minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses started 
        hormone intervention from 2017 through 2021, according to Reuters;
Whereas over 5,700 of the 13,994 minors across the United States who received 
        medical intervention for gender dysphoria over the course of 4 years 
        were operated on, according to Do No Harm's ``Does My Hospital 
        Transition Kids?'' database;
Whereas approximately 225 children's hospitals in the United States provide some 
        version of ``gender affirming care'';
Whereas many of the individuals who underwent these transition procedures, like 
        detransitioner and activist Chloe Cole, ultimately pursue the process of 
        detransitioning; and
Whereas Detransition Awareness Day has been nationally recognized since 2021: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) designates March 12, 2026, as ``Detransition Awareness 
        Day''; and
            (2) celebrates and commits to fostering the biological 
        reality of young men and women.
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