Prison Rape Prevention Act of 2025

This bill, titled the Prison Rape Prevention Act of 2025, would amend federal law (18 U.S.C. 3621) to impose new rules on housing and transportation for federal prisoners based on biological sex, and to prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from furnishing or paying for gender-related medical treatments. Specifically, it requires that during imprisonment a prisoner be placed only among prisoners of the same biological sex and transported only among prisoners of the same biological sex. It also bars funding or provision of gender-related medical treatments. The bill defines key terms (biological sex, male, female, gender, and gender-related medical treatment) and lists specific procedures and treatments that would be included in or excluded from the definition of gender-related medical treatment. The definitions indicate a binary, biology-based approach to housing/transport and to medical care, with several explicit surgeries, hormone therapies, and puberty blockers identified as gender-related treatments, along with an allowance for the Director of the BOP to designate additional treatments. The act would take effect by adding new subsection (j) to 18 U.S.C. 3621, and creating a new definition section (k). It is currently introduced in the House (February 5, 2025) and referred to the Judiciary Committee; sponsor information lists several cosponsors but no Senate text is provided here.