Indiana § 25-1-22-5 "Gender transition procedures"

Indiana Statutes

§ 25-1-22-5 — "Gender transition procedures"

Indiana·Title 25 PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS·Art. 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS·Ch. 22 Gender Transition Procedures for Minors

(a)As used in this chapter, "gender transition procedures" means any medical or surgical service, including physician's services, practitioner's services, inpatient and outpatient hospital services, or prescribed drugs related to gender transition, that seeks to:

(1)alter or remove physical or anatomical characteristics or features that are typical for the individual's sex; or

(2)instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a sex different from the individual's sex, including medical services that provide puberty blocking drugs, gender transition hormone therapy, or genital gender reassignment surgery or nongenital gender reassignment surgery knowingly performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition.

(b)The term does not incl

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(a) As used in this chapter, "gender transition
procedures" means any medical or surgical service, including
physician's services, practitioner's services, inpatient and outpatient
hospital services, or prescribed drugs related to gender transition, that
seeks to:
(1) alter or remove physical or anatomical characteristics or
features that are typical for the individual's sex; or
(2) instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that
resemble a sex different from the individual's sex, including
medical services that provide puberty blocking drugs, gender
transition hormone therapy, or genital gender reassignment
surgery or nongenital gender reassignment surgery knowingly
performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender
transition.
(b) The term does not include the following:
(1) Medical or surgical services to an individual born with a
medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including an
individual with:
(A) external sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous;
(B) forty-six (46) XX chromosomes with virilization;
(C) forty-six (46) XY chromosomes with undervirilization; or
(D) both ovarian and testicular tissue.
(2) Medical or surgical services provided when a physician or
practitioner has diagnosed a disorder or condition of sexual
development that the physician or practitioner has determined
through genetic or biochemical testing that the individual does not
have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone
production, or sex steroid hormone action.
(3) The treatment of any infection, injury, disease, or disorder that
has been caused by or exacerbated by the performance of gender
transition procedures.
(4) Any medical or surgical service undertaken because the
individual suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or
physical illness that would, as certified by a physician or
practitioner, place the individual in imminent danger of death or
impairment of major bodily function unless the medical or
surgical service is performed.
(5) Mental health or social services other than gender transition
procedures as defined in subsection (a).
(6) Services for a disorder or condition of sexual development
that is unrelated to a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or gender
identity disorder.