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Legal recognition · Legal sex definitions

Indiana

Restriction reported

Governor's order makes all executive agencies read sex as an unchangeable biological male/female category

Laws cited
Ind. Exec. Order No. 25-36 (Mar. 4, 2025), "Respecting the Biological Dichotomy Between Men and Women as Fundamental & Deeply Rooted Legal Principle Embedded in Indiana Law"
In effect since
Instrument
Executive order
Litigation
L.A. v. Braun, No. 1:25-cv-00596-MPB-TAB (S.D. Ind.): a putative class action challenging EO 25-36 as the state health department applies it to birth-certificate sex-marker changes. The court denied a preliminary injunction on Sept. 26, 2025 (Dkt. 103), so the order is not blocked. A news headline reports an appeal to the Seventh Circuit, but I did not check its status.
Researched
(Date of the primary-source research; not a legal effective date)

From the source text

"Sex"—when referring to a human being— means an individual human being's immutable biological classification as either male or female.

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Researched from primary sources

Trans Data Initiative research. Researched from primary sources (enacted text, the code on official sites, executive orders, court orders), starting from the Trans Data Initiative legislation tracker's bills. Each determination was checked independently by a second researcher; disputes were settled by a third review. No other tracker's descriptions were used.

A record is what a source reported on the date it was captured, not a legal effective date. An unobserved record is not a finding that no restrictions exist.

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