The U.S. House of Representatives voted 216-211 Wednesday to criminalize performing gender transition procedures on minors, although its prospects of making it through the Senate are doubtful. Introduced by outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the Protect Children’s Innocence Act would impose fines and/or up to 10 years in prison on anyone who “knowingly performs, or attempts to perform, genital or bodily mutilation on another person who is a minor”; “knowingly chemically castrates a minor”; or knowingly “facilitates or consents to female genital mutilation of a minor” or “transports a minor for the purpose of the performance of female genital mutilation on such minor.”

A new initiative launched by the Texas Office of the Attorney General is aimed at helping citizens stop “mentally ill men” from entering women’s restrooms in public spaces. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), known as the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, which took effect on Dec. 4, requires state agencies, political subdivisions, public schools, charter schools, and higher education institutions to designate multiple-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms and similar private spaces for use by one sex only, based on biological sex.