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Proposal would let transgender New Yorkers change birth certificates without surgery
Proposal would let transgender New Yorkers change birth certificates without surgeryBY 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.
“It’s going to improve the lives of transgender New Yorkers and allow them to get birth certificates that match their accurate gender,” he said. “Gender won’t be about your physicality. It won’t be about your body. It’s 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....
MORE at http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/proposal-transgender-new-yorkers-change-birth-certificates-surgery-blog-entry-1.1965316
