Meaning of restricted medical treatment
8 Meaning of restricted medical treatment
In this Act:
restricted medical treatment, in relation to a person who has a variation in sex characteristics, means the following:
a surgical or medical procedure or treatment (including the prescription or administration of a drug) that permanently changes the person’s sex characteristics, or which makes changes to the person’s sex characteristics that are only reversible with a further medical procedure or treatment;
a prescribed surgical or medical procedure or treatment (including the prescription or administration of a drug) that temporarily changes the person’s sex characteristics.
However, restricted medical treatment does not include circumcision of the penis.
In this section:
sex characteristics—see section 7 (2).
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