Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 181 - SPECIAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
Chapter 8 - NONSURGICAL PHARMACEUTICAL GENDER ALTERING TREATMENTS
Section 181-8-002 - DEFINITIONS
Current through September 17, 2024
Definitions are set out in the Let Them Grow Act, and this chapter.
002.01 GENDER DYSPHORIA. A marked incongruence between a person's experienced or expressed gender and the biological sex at birth for at least six months as manifested by the criteria set out in in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fifth Edition, Text-Revisions as published in March 2022.
002.02 GENDER NONCONFORMITY. For purposes of this chapter, gender nonconformity is a pattern of sexual identity different from the biological sex at birth expressed through observable behaviors as determined by a credentialed health care practitioner or mental health care practitioner.
002.03 LONG-LASTING AND INTENSE PATTERN OF GENDER NONCONFORMITY OR GENDER DYSPHORIA. A pattern of gender nonconformity being observed or treated for more than six continuous months or a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
002.04 PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS. For the purposes of this chapter, prescribed medications mean puberty blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones for the treatment of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria.
002.05 TANNER SCALE OF PUBERTY. Also known as Sexual Maturity Rating is an objective classification system used to determine the development and sequence of secondary sex characteristics of children during puberty.
