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Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Sec. 13. (a) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d), a physician or other practitioner may not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to a minor.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a physician or other practitioner may not aid or abet another physician or practitioner in the provision of gender transition procedures to a minor.
(c) This section does not prohibit a physician or other practitioner from providing any of the following to a minor:
(1) Services to individuals born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including an individual with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous, including individuals born with forty-six (46) XX chromosomes with virilization, born with forty-six (46) XY chromosomes with undervirilization, or having both ovarian and testicular tissue.
(2) Services provided when a physician or practitioner has diagnosed a disorder 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.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Indiana Code Title 25. Professions and Occupations § 25-1-22-13 - last updated January 02, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-25-professions-and-occupations/in-code-sect-25-1-22-13/
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