Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Good News, Bad News… Now The Good News

Illinois is trying to join the club of states that will allow us to change our birth certificates without surgery.
State Bill Would Modernize Process To Change Gender On Illinois Birth Certificates
Progress Illinois
By Ellyn Fortino
February 15th, 2016

Legislation aimed at easing the process for transgender people in Illinois to change the gender marker on their birth certificate was introduced in the state House last week.

State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) is sponsoring the bill, HB 6073. It would eliminate the state's current requirement that transgender people in Illinois provide proof of transition-related surgery in order to obtain a new birth certificate matching their lived gender.
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Eleven other states and Washington, D.C. have already dropped proof-of-surgery rules for changing gender markers on birth certificates.
Somehow I lost count; I thought it was eight states and Washington D.C. but that is a good thing to see that there are more states changing their laws to help us.

I wonder what would happen if someone from those states go to South Dakota goes the bathroom and gets arrested what would happen? Their birth state says they are female but South Dakota says they are male, it seems to me that Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" says that states must recognize other states laws.

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