Tag: birth certificate
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Order signed to let same-sex couples register both names on birth certificate
Minister for Health Simon Harris signed commencement orders and regulations.
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New bill will enable transgender and intersex Victorians to change sex on birth certificate
Transgender and intersex Victorians will be able to change the sex on their birth certificates under a new bill.
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TLDEF Criticises New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for Vetoing Birth Certificate Legislation and Disrespecting Transgender People
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund strongly criticises New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for his recent veto of a bill to eliminate the requirement that transgender people undergo surgery in order to correct the gender markers on their birth certificates. The bill would have instead required a doctor to certify that a transgender person “has undergone clinically appropriate treatment for the purpose of gender transition, based on contemporary medical standards….”
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Straight couple’s nightmare could have been saved by same-sex marriage law
A British woman has had her marriage dissolved and her dreams of living permanently in Australia wrecked by the fact she is officially a man.
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Gay Adoption Case Making Way to Supreme Court
Lambda Legal Defense is taking its fight for same-sex families to the U.S. Supreme Court.