1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Children’s Innocence Act . 2. Gender affirming care on minors prohibited Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by adding at the end the following: 2260B. Gender affirming care for minors (a) In general Whoever, in any circumstance described in subsection (e), knowingly performs any gender affirming care on a minor is guilty of a class C felony. (b) Prohibition on prosecution of person on whom intervention is performed No person on whom the gender affirming care under subsection (a) is performed may be arrested or prosecuted for an offense under this section. (c) Civil action A person on whom gender affirming care is performed under this section may bring a civil action for appropriate relief, including compensatory and punitive damages, against each person who performed the gender affirming care. (d) Definitions In this section: (1) Gender affirming care (A) In general For purposes of this chapter, except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term gender affirming care means, with respect to an individual, any of the following: (i) Performing any surgery for the purpose of changing the body of such individual to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex, including— (I) castration; (II) orchiectomy; (III) scrotoplasty; (IV) vasectomy; (V) hysterectomy; (VI) oophorectomy; (VII) ovariectomy; (VIII) metoidioplasty; (IX) penectomy; (X) phalloplasty; (XI) vaginoplasty; (XII) vaginectomy; (XIII) vulvoplasty; (XIV) reduction thyrochondroplasty; (XV) chondrolaryngoplasty