Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 3129 - Gender Transition Services for Minors

• Certified nurse practitioner: means an advanced practice registered nurse who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723 of the Revised Code and is designated as a certified nurse practitioner in accordance with section 4723. See Ohio Code 1.64
• Clinical nurse specialist: means an advanced practice registered nurse who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723 of the Revised Code and is designated as a clinical nurse specialist in accordance with section 4723. See Ohio Code 1.64
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Cross-sex hormone: means testosterone, estrogen, or progesterone given to a minor individual in an amount greater than would normally be produced endogenously in a healthy individual of the minor individual's age and sex. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Gender reassignment surgery: means any surgery performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with gender transition that seeks to surgically alter or remove healthy physical or anatomical characteristics or features that are typical for the individual's biological sex, in order to instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a sex different from the individual's birth sex, including genital or non-genital gender reassignment surgery. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Gender transition: means the process in which an individual goes from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to his or her biological sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from his or her biological sex, including social, legal, or physical changes. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Gender transition services: means any medical or surgical service (including physician services, inpatient and outpatient hospital services, or prescription drugs or hormones) provided for the purpose of assisting an individual with gender transition that seeks to alter or remove physical or anatomical characteristics or features that are typical for the individual's biological sex, or to instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a sex different from the individual's birth sex, including medical services that provide puberty blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or other mechanisms to promote the development of feminizing or masculinizing features in the opposite sex, or genital or non-genital gender reassignment surgery. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Gender-related condition: includes gender dysphoria. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Mental health professional: means all of the following:

  (1) Either of the following advanced practice registered nurses who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723 of the Revised Code that authorizes the practice of nursing as an advanced practice registered nurse:

  (a) A clinical nurse specialist who is certified as a psychiatric-mental health CNS by the American nurses credentialing center;

  (b) A certified nurse practitioner who is certified as a psychiatric-mental health NP by the American nurses credentialing center. See Ohio Code 3129.01

• Minor individual: means an individual under eighteen years of age. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Non-genital gender reassignment surgery: means surgery performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with gender transition such as augmentation mammoplasty, facial feminization surgery, liposuction, lipofilling, voice surgery, thyroid cartilage reduction, gluteal augmentation, pectoral implants, or other aesthetic procedures. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• Physician: means an individual authorized under Chapter 4731 of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. See Ohio Code 3129.01
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59