26:2H-12.101 Definitions concerning resident rights in long-term care facilities.
1. As used in this act:
"Gender expression" means a person's gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.
"Gender identity" means a person's internal, deeply held knowledge or sense of their own gender, regardless of the sex the person was assigned at birth.
"Gender-nonconforming" means a person whose gender expression does not conform to stereotypical expectations of that person's gender.
"Gender transition" means a process in which a person begins to live according to that person's gender identity, rather than the sex the person was assigned at birth, which process may include changing one's clothing, appearance, name, or identification documents, or undergoing medical treatments.
"Intersex" means a person whose sexual or reproductive anatomy or chromosomal pattern is not consistent with typical definitions of male or female.
"LGBTQI" means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex.
"Long-term care facility" means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).
"Long-term care facility staff" means all individuals employed by, or contracted directly with, a long-term care facility.
"Resident" means resident or patient of a long-term care facility.
"Queer" means a person whose gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation does not conform to dominant expectations or standards.
"Questioning" means a person who is exploring or unsure about the person's own sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
"Sexual orientation" means a person's romantic or sexual attraction to other people.
"Transgender" means a person whose gender identity or gender expression differs from the sex assigned to the person at birth.
"Undesignated/non-binary" means a person whose gender identity is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, a person whose gender identity is intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, neutrois, non-binary, pangender, third sex, transgender, Two Spirit, or otherwise unspecified by the person.
L.2021, c.33, s.1.