The Chloe Cole Act prohibits health care professionals from performing chemical or surgical mutilation on children and allows for civil action.
The Chloe Cole Act prohibits health care professionals, hospitals, and clinics from participating in the chemical or surgical mutilation of a child. This includes prescribing puberty blockers, sex hormones, or performing surgical procedures that alter a child's body to no longer correspond to their sex. Exceptions are made for medically necessary procedures to treat verifiable disorders of sexual development. The act allows for a private right of action for damages by children subjected to such mutilation or their parents. Damages can include compensatory, non-economic, and punitive damages.
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