New York State will allow transgender minors to amend their birth certificates
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metroweekly.comSource: Ted Eytan – Flickr New York State has announced it will change its policy prohibiting transgender minors from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates to match their gender identity.
The announcement comes after the state was sued last month by a transgender boy, M.H.W., who was born in Ithaca, N.Y. but now resides in Houston, Texas.
Since undergoing gender-affirming care, M.H.W. has been able to change his gender marker on various identity documents, including his passport and Social Security records.
But due to New York’s policy, he has been unable to obtain a birth certificate that matches his gender identity. In the lawsuit, filed in U.S.
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