Sunday, December 15, 2013

Your Birth Certificate Please!

New Jersey is heading to join three other states and the District of Columbia that allows you to change your gender on your birth certificate without having surgery,
N.J. Senate approves bill to allow transgender people to obtain new birth certificate
NJ.com
By Susan K. Livio/The Star-Ledger
December 12, 201

TRENTON — A state Senate panel today approved a bill that would require the state Health Department to issue a new birth certificate for people who have gone through the clinical process of altering their gender.

State law since 1984 has required the state Health Department to issue a new birth certificate to people who have undergone gender reassignment surgery.

Not every transgender person undergoes surgery because of the expense and the health risks involved with a major surgery, said Joseph Vitale, chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, (D-Middlesex), who sponsored the bill.
Senator Vitale is right when he says that the requirement to have surgery is a major hurdle that not every trans-people can under go for various reasons.

The other states that allow you to change your birth certificate without surgery are Oregon, California, and Illinois along with the District of Columbia. Illinois change the requirement for changing your birth certificate by a court agreement, the states and Washington DC changed their law by legislative action.

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