Proposal would let transgender New Yorkers change birth certificates without surgery
Proposal would let transgender New Yorkers change birth certificates without surgery
BY Erin Durkin
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, October 6, 2014
Updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Changing your gender on a city birth certificate would become much easier under legislation to be introduced Tuesday in the City Council.
Under the bill, sponsored by Councilman Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan),transgender New Yorkers could change their documents without getting sex reassignment surgery or hormone therapy.
Its going to improve the lives of transgender New Yorkers and allow them to get birth certificates that match their accurate gender, he said. Gender wont be about your physicality. It wont be about your body. Its about how you identify.
The state acted earlier this year to stop requiring surgery or other medical treatments to make a birth certificate change, but since the city handles its own birth certificates, the change did not apply in the five boroughs....
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