Court says Ohio must allow changes to birth certificates of transgender people
In his ruling, Judge Michael Watson called the rule discriminatory and said the state’s arguments were “nothing more than thinly veiled post-hoc rationales to deflect from the discriminatory impact of the policy.”
Dec 21, 2020 5:45 AM
By: J.D. Davidson
(Photo courtesy of odh.ohio.gov)
A federal court ruled last week that Ohio must allow changes, or what proponents call corrections, to gender markers on birth certificates, leaving Tennessee as the only state in the nation not to allow changes.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down the policy that prevented transgender people born in Ohio from adjusting the gender marker on their birth certificate. The decision comes in a lawsuit filed two years ago on behalf of three Ohio women and one man.