Montana Title 50. Health and Safety § 50-4-1202. Definitions

(1) “Changing room” means a room or area in which an individual may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, including a locker room or shower room.

(2) “Correctional center” means a facility that houses individuals charged with or convicted of a criminal offense and that is designed, constructed, or operated by the department of corrections.

(3) “Covered entity” means a correctional center, a juvenile detention facility, a local domestic violence program, a public building, or a public school.

(4) “Female” means a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XX chromosomes and produces or would produce relatively large, relatively immobile gametes, or eggs, during her life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes.  An individual who would otherwise fall within this definition, but for a biological or genetic condition, is female.

(5) “Juvenile detention facility” means a short-term detention center, a youth detention facility, including a regional detention facility, or a secure detention facility that is under contract with the state or a subdivision of the state.

(6) “Local domestic violence program” means a shelter or safe home for victims of domestic violence that is funded by the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act grant program established in 44-7-401.

(7) “Male” means a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XY chromosomes and produces or would produce small, mobile gametes, or sperm, during his life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes.  An individual who would otherwise fall within this definition, but for a biological or genetic condition, is male.

(8) “Multi-occupancy” means a space that is designed for use by multiple individuals simultaneously.

(9) “Public building” means a building that is owned or leased by a public agency as defined in 18-1-101 and that is open to the public, including but not limited to:

(10) “Public school” means a noncharter public school or a public charter school as those terms are defined in 20-6-803.

(11) “Restroom” means a room that includes one or more toilets or urinals.

(12) “Sex” means the organization of the body parts and gametes for reproduction in human beings and other organisms.  In human beings, there are exactly two sexes, male and female, with two corresponding types of gametes.  The sexes are determined by the biological and genetic indication of male or female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex chromosomes, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, behavioral, social, chosen, or subjective experience of gender.

(13) “Sleeping quarters” means a room with one or more beds and in which more than one individual is housed overnight.