All posts tagged "birth certificates"
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Transgender Kansas residents sue state over birth certificate policy
Kansas is one of only three states that categorically denies any gender marker change on birth certificates
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Indiana transgender student sues over policy banning him from boys’ restroom
School district argues that students' restroom use needs to be dictated by the gender listed on their birth certificates
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New Jersey governor signs three transgender rights bills into law
Bills allow people to amend their vital records to reflect their gender identity, and create a special transgender task force
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Israel retroactively removed non-biological lesbian parents from birth certificates
An Israeli couple learned while trying to get travel visas that their names had been removed from their children's birth certificates
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Canadian province will allow birth certificates without gender marker
Saskatchewan government made the change after a 2014 human rights complaint
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Court orders Puerto Rico to issue accurate birth certificates to transgender residents
Crder comes in response to a first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit
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LGBTQ advocates sue Ohio over anti-transgender birth certificate law
Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, and ACLU of Ohio are suing the Buckeye State for a policy that prohibits people from changing the...
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Court orders Idaho to issue accurate birth certificates to transgender residents
A federal judge has ordered Idaho state officials to allow transgender people born in Idaho to change the gender markers on their birth certificates by...
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Transgender Texan high school wrestler Mack Beggs wins second state title
Spectators boo teen for using hormones to transition, rather than rigid UIL policy, as Beggs finishes season undefeated
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Pennsylvania Republicans bemoan removal of “mother” and “father” from state birth certificates
A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers is objecting to a bureaucratic change that replaced the terms “mother” and “father” with “parent,” demanding that the state Department...
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Arkansas governor orders Dept. of Health to list lesbian mothers on birth certificates
Directive follows court orders that same-sex parents have their parental rights recognized
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Montana Republicans tried — and failed — to pass anti-trans legislation
Bill would have made it harder for transgender people to change their gender markers on their birth certificates
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Illinois governor signs “gay panic” and trans birth certificate bills into law
Both measures hope to bring a greater degree of equality to LGBTQ Illinoisans
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Lawsuit challenges Puerto Rico’s refusal to issue transgender birth certificates
Lawyers representing three transgender residents of Puerto Rico and an LGBTQ advocacy group have filed papers urging a federal court to strike down Puerto Rico’s...
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SCOTUS says Arkansas must list same-sex parents on children’s birth certificates
Court found state's birth certificate policy discriminated against same-sex couples
