Indiana Republican Representatives Michelle Davis and Jeff Ellington’s so-called “Gender transition therapies report” attempts to create a state of surveillance by giving Indiana’s Republican trifecta the power to hold records of trans people’s confidential medical records.

The ‘report’ will require healthcare professionals to file in in-depth details about their gender-affirming services, to the state department of health.

This would also include giving the state access to trans youth’s personal details like their county of residence, their ‘level of education’, their race and ethnicity, and details about their mental health.

The state department would then be required to compile and submit this data to the general assembly, a Republican trifecta.

Given the context of other legislation that criminalizes trans-affirming healthcare, it’s safe to assume that this bill will create a state of systemic surveillance aimed at stripping doctors of their licenses if they support trans youth.

Though this bill tries to justify itself by claiming it doesn’t ask for information identifying trans youth, it will still have the state enough access to personal details that put trans youth and their families at risk of being surveilled and possibly targeted.

The bill follows another common theme of erasure in these legislative attacks: it doesn’t use the word “transgender” even once.

IN HB 1121 was read and referred to Committee on Public Health on January 4th, 2022.