Indiana Code 25-1-22-6. “Genital gender reassignment surgery”
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Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, “genital gender reassignment surgery” means a medical procedure knowingly performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition, including the following:
(2) Reconstruction of the fixed part of the urethra with or without a metoidioplasty.
(1) Surgical procedures, including a penectomy, orchiectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, or vulvoplasty for a male sex patient or hysterectomy or ovariectomy for a female sex patient.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 25-1-22-6
- gender: means the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of being male or female. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-1
- gender transition: means the process in which an individual shifts from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to his or her sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from his or her sex, and may involve social, legal, or physical changes. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-3
- sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-12
(3) Phalloplasty, vaginectomy, scrotoplasty, or implantation of erection or testicular prostheses for a female sex patient.
As added by P.L.10-2023, SEC.1.