Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill in Indiana that requires the use of state-run facilities, including school bathrooms and state detention centers, to be based on biological sex.

Highlights:

• Defines “gender” as a synonym of biological sex, without regard to an individual’s psychological, behavioral, social, chosen, or subjective experience of gender (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that this definition applies to all Indiana statutes (Sec. 1).

• Requires the Department of Corrections to assign a criminal offender to a facility or program that is based on the offender’s sex (Sec. 2-3).

• Prohibits the sex designation on a birth certificate from being changed, with the following exceptions (Sec. 5):

• A medically verifiable genetic or physiological disorder of sex development; or

• A reversion of the sex designation on a birth certificate that was previously changed.

• Requires each school in the state to designate each multiple occupancy restroom or changing area for use by only one sex (Sec. 6-7).

• Prohibits individuals from using a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area that is designated for the opposite sex (Sec. 6-7).

• Exempts individuals from such prohibition under the following circumstances (Sec. 6):

• The multiple occupancy restroom or changing area has been temporarily designated for use by the opposite sex;

• The individual is less than nine years of age and is accompanied by a parent or caregiver; or

• The individual enters a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area for one of the following purposes:

• Custodial, maintenance, or inspection purposes;

• To render medical or emergency assistance;

• To accompany a student needing assistance if the individual assisting is the student’s parent or caregiver; or

• To provide coaching or athletic training during an athletic event, provided no students are in a state of undress.

• Prohibits schools from requiring a student to share sleeping quarters with a member of the opposite sex, unless the individual is a member of the student’s family (Sec. 6-7).

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