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| 1 | AN ACT concerning government. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Definitions of Sex-Based Terms Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Purpose; application; findings. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | (a) The purpose of this Act is to bring clarity, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | certainty, and uniformity to the laws of the State regarding | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | sex discrimination, privacy, equality of the sexes, and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | benefits or services specifically provided to males and to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | females. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | (b) This Act shall apply wherever the State or an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | instrumentality of the State classifies people on the basis of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | sex or otherwise defines people as being female or male, women | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | or men, girls or boys. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | (c) The General Assembly finds that: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (1) males and females are legally equal, but they are | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | not the same; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | (2) males and females possess unique and immutable | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | biological differences that manifest prior to birth and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | increase as they age and experience puberty; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (3) these unique and immutable biological differences | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | mean that females and males are not similarly situated in | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | all circumstances and are not interchangeable; and | ||||||
| 2 | (4) inconsistencies in court rulings and policy | ||||||
| 3 | initiatives regarding sex discrimination and common | ||||||
| 4 | sex-based words have endangered women's rights and | ||||||
| 5 | resources and have put the existence of private, | ||||||
| 6 | single-sex spaces in jeopardy, thereby necessitating | ||||||
| 7 | clarification of certain terms used in State law. | ||||||
| 8 | Section 10. Definitions of terms used in State statutes | ||||||
| 9 | and administrative rules. In determining the meaning of any | ||||||
| 10 | statute or of any rule, regulation, or interpretation of the | ||||||
| 11 | various administrative agencies of this State: | ||||||
| 12 | "Boy" means a human male who is a legal minor under the | ||||||
| 13 | laws of Illinois, provided that the use of "boy" in reference | ||||||
| 14 | to the participation of a high-school-aged individual in a | ||||||
| 15 | school or extracurricular program shall not be understood to | ||||||
| 16 | exclude the participation of a student who is legally an | ||||||
| 17 | adult. | ||||||
| 18 | "Father" means a male parent of a child or children as | ||||||
| 19 | defined in Illinois law. | ||||||
| 20 | "Female" means, when this term is used in reference to a | ||||||
| 21 | natural person, an individual who naturally has, had, will | ||||||
| 22 | have through the course of normal development, or would have | ||||||
| 23 | but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident | ||||||
| 24 | the reproductive system that at some point produces ova. | ||||||
| 25 | "Girl" means a human female who is a legal minor under the | ||||||
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| 1 | laws of Illinois, provided that the use of "girl" in reference | ||||||
| 2 | to the participation of a high-school-aged individual in a | ||||||
| 3 | school or extracurricular program shall not be understood to | ||||||
| 4 | exclude the participation of a student who is legally an | ||||||
| 5 | adult. | ||||||
| 6 | "Male" means, when this term is used in reference to a | ||||||
| 7 | natural person, an individual who naturally has, had, will | ||||||
| 8 | have through the course of normal development, or would have | ||||||
| 9 | but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident | ||||||
| 10 | the reproductive system that at some point produces sperm. | ||||||
| 11 | "Man" means an adult human of the male sex. | ||||||
| 12 | "Mother" means a female parent of a child or children as | ||||||
| 13 | defined in Illinois law. | ||||||
| 14 | "Sex" means, when this term is used to classify or | ||||||
| 15 | describe a natural person, the state of being either male or | ||||||
| 16 | female as observed or clinically verified at birth. "Sex" | ||||||
| 17 | includes only 2 sexes, and every individual is either male or | ||||||
| 18 | female, and individuals with congenital and medically | ||||||
| 19 | verifiable differences in sex development, disorders in sex | ||||||
| 20 | development, or intersex conditions, are not members of a | ||||||
| 21 | third sex and must be accommodated consistent with State and | ||||||
| 22 | federal law. "Sex" does not include "gender identity" or any | ||||||
| 23 | other term intended to convey a person's subjective sense of | ||||||
| 24 | self; "gender identity" and other subjective terms are not | ||||||
| 25 | synonyms or substitutes for "sex". | ||||||
| 26 | "Woman" means an adult human of the female sex. | ||||||
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| 1 | Section 97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are | ||||||
| 2 | severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes. | ||||||