We see it when we are murdered our identities are erased by the police/medical reports and many are concerned about how our deaths will be recorded.
When we were trying to pass the birth certificate law here in Connecticut this question came up and our lawyers advised us that the gender on our death certificate “should” reflect the gender on our birth certificate. The key lawyer speak word is “should” as they like to say until a judge rules everything else is a guess.
This Arizona Bill Ensures the Correct Gender is Listed on Transgender Death CertificatesMany times our next of kin have disowned us and will try to erased our lives.
Representative Rosanna Gabaldón, who has introduced HB 2290, said her transgender constituents “feel very strongly that they want to have dignity in death as well as life.”
The Daily Beast
By Samantha Allen
February 4, 2019
Transgender people can live for decades as their authentic selves—but still end up having their birth-assigned gender listed on their death certificates.
That’s a problem that Representative Rosanna Gabaldón is hoping to solve in Arizona.
Her bill HB 2290, as KPHO first reported, would make it easier to list the correct gender marker on the death certificate of a transgender loved one who passes away.
As HB 2290 itself states, the person who fills out the death certificate for a transgender person “shall record [their] sex to reflect [their] gender identity.”
If the next of kin tries to record the wrong gender, someone else can present a document—like proof of name change, a driver’s license, a social security card, a statement from a doctor, or a passport—to ensure the right gender is recorded.
When we were trying to pass the birth certificate law here in Connecticut this question came up and our lawyers advised us that the gender on our death certificate “should” reflect the gender on our birth certificate. The key lawyer speak word is “should” as they like to say until a judge rules everything else is a guess.
Interesting. I was born in Arizona (but I really don't remember). The last time I checked, they still will not allow me to change my birth certificate without a full physical transition. If this bill passes, though, I could die in Arizona, with the other ID I have now, and my death certificate would not match my birth certificate! So, while it's true that I found it necessary to transition in order to live as the woman I was born to be, I may, one day, be able to say, literally, that I was dying to be a woman (at least, in Arizona). :-)
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