Or. Admin. R. 416-435-0020 - Definitions
(1) Discrimination:
Any act, policy or practice that penalizes or disadvantages YICs or subjects
them to harassment based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, religious
belief, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual
orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or intersex status.
(2) Exigent circumstances: Any set of
temporary or unforeseen circumstances that require immediate action in order to
combat a threat to the security or institutional order of a facility, community
program, or the community.
(3)
Gender: The socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes
that a given society typically or historically assigns to men and
women.
(4) Gender diverse: A
person's physical appearance and characteristics or behaviors that are
different than those stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex
at birth or traditional societal gender expectations.
(5) Gender expression: The manner in which a
person expresses gender through clothing, appearance, behavior, speech, etc.
Gender expression is distinct from sexual orientation and gender
identity.
(6) Gender fluid: An
adjective used to describe a person whose gender identity is not fixed; of or
relating to a person having or expressing a fluid or unfixed gender
identity.
(7) Gender identity:
Refers to a person's internal, deeply felt sense of being male, female, or
non-binary; distinct from sexual orientation.
(8) Intersex: A person whose sexual or
reproductive anatomy, chromosomal pattern, or hormonal presentation does not
seem to fit typical definitions of male or female.
(9) OYA Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
and Expression Committee (SOGIEC): A multidisciplinary group that reviews and
determines appropriate community placement, housing assignment, care, and
management of YICs who identify as transgender, gender diverse, gender fluid or
intersex. The committee includes at least one person with knowledge of gender
issues facing transgender and intersex YICs.
(10) Transgender: A person whose gender
identity is different from the person's assigned sex at birth.
(11) Youth correction facility: A facility
used for the confinement of YICs and includes secure regional youth facilities,
regional accountability camps, residential academies and satellites, camps, and
branches of those facilities.
(12)
Youth in custody (YIC): A person in the legal and physical custody of OYA
either in a youth correction facility or placed in the community under
supervision; and a person in the legal custody of the Department of Corrections
and the physical custody of OYA in a youth correction facility.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 420A.025
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 420A.010, ORS 420A.014 & ORS 420A.015
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