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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.
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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.
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Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1] · R–SC
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2026-09-08 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This proposal would bar people diagnosed with gender dysphoria from executive-agency jobs that have mental health requirements and from certain agency-issued licenses or other credentials with those requirements. The restrictions would reach current workers and credential holders, as well as applicants. Their scope would depend on the mental health requirements applicable to each job or credential.
covered position means a position within an executive agency for which the employing agency has established, by regulation or agency policy, any mental health standards as a condition of appointment or continued service
covered certification means a license, certificate, or other credential issued by an executive agency to an individual where Federal law or regulation requires issuance or renewal of such credential on the individual meeting specified mental health standards
Any individual in a covered position shall satisfy all mental health standards required for such position and may not occupy such position if such individual has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Any individual holding a covered certification shall satisfy all mental health standards required for issuance or renewal of such certification and may not be granted or hold such a certificate if such individual is diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Covered jobs would be executive-agency positions with mental health requirements established through agency regulations or policies for hiring or continued service. The bill defines these standards as criteria for assessing whether a diagnosed mental health condition prevents safe or effective job performance.
covered position means a position within an executive agency for which the employing agency has established, by regulation or agency policy, any mental health standards as a condition of appointment or continued service
mental health standards means criteria used to assess whether a diagnosed mental health condition renders an individual unable to safely or effectively perform the duties of a covered position, as established through agency regulation, medical evaluation protocols, or Government-wide personnel suitability standards.
People in covered jobs would have to meet all applicable mental health standards. Separately, the proposal would prohibit anyone who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria from occupying a covered job; that prohibition does not expressly require an individual finding of unsafe or ineffective performance.
Any individual in a covered position shall satisfy all mental health standards required for such position and may not occupy such position if such individual has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Covered credentials would include licenses, certificates, and other credentials issued to individuals by executive agencies when federal law or regulation makes specified mental health standards a condition of issuance or renewal.
covered certification means a license, certificate, or other credential issued by an executive agency to an individual where Federal law or regulation requires issuance or renewal of such credential on the individual meeting specified mental health standards
Covered credential holders would have to meet all mental health requirements for issuance or renewal. A person diagnosed with gender dysphoria could neither receive nor hold a covered credential.
Any individual holding a covered certification shall satisfy all mental health standards required for issuance or renewal of such certification and may not be granted or hold such a certificate if such individual is diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Each executive-agency head would have to issue necessary implementing regulations within 180 days after enactment, addressing covered jobs and jobs requiring covered credentials within the agency's jurisdiction.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of each executive agency shall issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out section 7381 of title 5, United States Code, as added by subsection (b) of this Act, to covered positions, and positions requiring covered certification, as defined in such section, within the agencies jurisdiction.
The proposal expressly says it would impose no additional standards on executive-branch employees whose jobs are outside the definition of a covered position.
Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to impose additional standards on executive branch employees who are not in a covered position.
The supplied actions snapshot, updated September 18, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 8, 2026.
Source snapshot updated 2026-09-18T18:21:06Z. 2026-09-08: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 2026-09-08: Introduced in House
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