YourVoice.Now Summary
Workers & JobsCivil LibertiesA gender dysphoria diagnosis would bar you from some federal jobs — and from licenses like a pilot's health clearance.
Workers & Jobs
Agencies set mental health standards for some of their jobs. A gender dysphoria diagnosis would rule a person out of those jobs, whether new or already hired.
Some federal licenses go only to people who meet mental health standards, like the health check most pilots need. A diagnosis would block a new license, a renewal, or keeping one you hold.
Civil Liberties
An agency's standards ask if a condition keeps someone from doing the job safely. Here the diagnosis alone would rule the person out, even if they meet those standards.
More about this bill
If a doctor has diagnosed you with gender dysphoria, you could not hold certain federal jobs. The bar would apply where the agency has set mental health standards for hiring or for staying on. Each agency decides which of its jobs have those standards, so the reach is not fixed in the bill. The same bar would cover some federal licenses. It reaches a license an agency grants to a person when federal rules tie it to a mental health check. Most pilots, for example, must pass such a check to fly. Someone with the diagnosis could not get that license, renew it, or keep one they already hold. Agencies would write the rules within 180 days. Federal workers outside these jobs would face no new standards.
Congressional Summary
Gender Delusion Disqualification Act This bill prohibits individuals with a gender dysphoria diagnosis from occupying certain positions in executive agencies or obtaining or renewing certain federal credentials. (Gender dysphoria refers to the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's assigned gender.) Under the bill, an individual with gender dysphoria may not occupy a position for which the employing agency has established mental health standards. Such standards are criteria the agency uses to determine whether an individual's diagnosed mental health condition renders them unable to safely or effectively perform the duties of a position. The criteria may be established through agency regulation, medical evaluation protocols, or government-wide personnel suitability standards. The bill also prohibits individuals with gender dysphoria from obtaining or renewing any license, certificate, or other credential that is issued by an executive agency and is conditioned on the individual satisfying specified mental health standards. For example, the Federal Aviation Administration prohibits airline pilot licenses from being issued to individuals with certain mental health diagnoses (e.g., bipolar disorder). Executive agencies must issue regulations necessary to establish these requirements for covered positions and credentials within 180 days after the bill's enactment.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-09-08
- Date Added
- 2026-09-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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