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A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges North Carolina’s requirement that transgender individuals who want to update their birth certificate undergo “sex
Tennessee will not change the sex on a birth certificate under any circumstances. [59] [60] [61] In December 2020, a federal judge invalidated an unconstitutional departmental rule banning sex changes on an individual's birth certificate within Ohio. [62] In 2022, Oklahoma became the second state to ban legal gender marker change on birth ...
Only 11 states currently allow a change to a birth certificate based solely on a person's declaration of their gender identity, which is what the plaintiffs are seeking in Tennessee.
Before 2016, the Ohio Department of Health allowed transgender people to change their birth certificate, but the department changed the policy, which precipitated a federal lawsuit.
The child's sex will be displayed on the birth certificate only if the parents choose to opt-in. The same reforms also allowed persons over the age of 16 to change their gender identity on official documentation – without a sex reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy – by providing a gender declaration.
In Wisconsin, the state has allowed both parents to be on the birth certificate, but refuses to change the wordage from "father and mother" to a gender-neutral "parent 1 and parent 2." In another case, a couple was outright rejected in their request. A federal lawsuit has been filed challenging this refusal. [80]
The state or territory issued birth certificate is a secure A4 paper document, generally listing: Full name at birth, sex at birth, parent(s) and occupation(s), older sibling(s), address(es), date and place of birth, name of the registrar, date of registration, date of issue of certificate, a registration number, with the signature of the ...
Buncombe County Register of Deeds has streamlined the process for changing birth certificate genders, a move that creates equity for trans people. Birth certificate gender change for trans people ...