Oklahoma is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to validate the state’s policy of requiring that birth certificates reflect a person’s biological sex at birth, as opposed to gender identity. The high court ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas health officials say they'll issue amended birth certificates for the children of three married same-sex couples who sued the state, but are holding off on issuing ...

FILE - Lead plaintiff Kayla Gore speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The fate of a decades-old Tennessee law that does not allow ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Pulaski County judge said Monday that three same-sex couples who sued the state for refusing to name both spouses on the birth certificates of their children can get the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuesday was a historic day for the trans community in Northern California. Cristina Arias became the first transgender woman in ...

State lawmakers can’t block transgender individuals from getting an amended birth certificate unless they first have surgery, ...

Advocates for the rights of nongender-conforming people said they’re disappointed in the governor’s executive order which bans amended birth certificates that affirm nonbinary gender designations.

Arizona’s top state health official says there is nothing unconstitutional about her agency’s refusal to issue new “corrected’’ birth certificates to transgender individuals based simply on their ...

While Republican lawmakers have repeatedly failed to pass legislation to prevent transgender people from updating their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity, the state has nonetheless ...

CHARLESTON, WV – Following a lawsuit from ACLU, ACLU of West Virginia, and the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Vital Registration ...