Indiana Code > Title 25 > Article 1 > Chapter 22 – Gender Transition Procedures for Minors
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- Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- gender: means the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of being male or female. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-1
- gender reassignment surgery: means any medical or surgical service that seeks to surgically alter or remove healthy physical or anatomical characteristics or features that are typical for the individual's sex, in order to instill or create physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a sex different from the individual's sex, including genital gender reassignment surgery or nongenital gender reassignment surgery knowingly performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-2
- 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
- gender transition hormone therapy: means :
Indiana Code 25-1-22-4
- 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:
Indiana Code 25-1-22-5
- 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.
- minor: means an individual who is less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 25-1-22-7
- nongenital gender reassignment surgery: means medical procedures knowingly performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition, including the following:
Indiana Code 25-1-22-8
- physician: means an individual who is licensed under Indiana Code 25-1-22-9
- practitioner: means an individual who provides health services and holds:
Indiana Code 25-1-22-10
- puberty blocking drugs: means :
Indiana Code 25-1-22-11
- 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