"This is not about digging up drama. It's about restoring dignity. Access to an original birth certificate isn't about ...

The US Supreme Court ordered reconsideration of rulings backing transgender rights in clashes over health care and birth ...

For Star subscribers: Arizona's top state health official says there is nothing unconstitutional about refusing to issue "corrected'' birth certificates based simply on individuals' requests.

In the U.S., 44 states do allow birth certificates to be altered to change a person's birth sex. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana.

Federal vs. state. The Ohio Department of Health initially permitted transgender people to amend their birth certificates, but that policy changed in 2016, and the reversal sparked a federal lawsuit.

An Arizona law requiring a person to prove they had undergone a "sex change operation" in order to change the gender listed on their birth certificate unconstitutionally violates equal protection ...

Another policy prevents transgender residents from changing the sex on their driver’s licenses without an amended birth certificate — which they can’t obtain if they were born in Montana.

Texans will “no longer” be able to use a court order to change the sex on a birth certificate, the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said Tuesday.

In Oklahoma, a 2021 executive order by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt to prohibit that state's Health Department from issuing nonbinary or gender-neutral birth certificates, or making those changes ...