DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took ...

"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 ...

Federal judges must revisit decisions upholding transgender rights after the justices ruled that states may ban gender ...

A Labour MP has proposed a new law, so unmarried mothers whose partners die during their pregnancy can name both parents on a child’s birth certificate. Jen Craft said her Registration of Births ...

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.

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.

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 ...

A federal judge blocked President Trump’s “two sexes” executive order that banned the gender-neutral X sex marker from U.S.

The Texas Department of Public Safety, which issues driver’s licenses, said in an internal memo Tuesday that effective immediately, the agency will “not accept court orders or amended birth ...

Abu Dhabi: How to apply for, amend birth certificate; what you need to know. The joyous moment of welcoming a newborn also comes with documents that need to be issued, which can be done in a few ...