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Utah law currently uses the term "gender" throughout dozens of statutes covering topics such as foster care placement, jail and police policies, state board appointments, building codes for public restrooms, medical cannabis card applications, and non-discrimination protections. This bill would replace nearly all instances of "gender" with "sex" across these laws and would require state and local government agencies to use the term "sex," referring to biological sex, instead of "gender" when writing future administrative rules, policies, and programs. In addition to the terminology change, the bill also removes some specific language in human services non-discrimination policy requiring procedures for teaching effective communication with individuals "of all sexual orientations and genders," narrowing that requirement's wording. In most other cases, the bill does not change the underlying rules, eligibility criteria, or requirements themselves, but changes the specific term used to describe sex-based classifications and distinctions in Utah law.