“A birth certificate purports to tell the world about who we are,” said Susan Becker, general counsel for the ACLU of Ohio. The plaintiffs in the case are Stacie Ray, Jane Doe and Ashley Breda, women whose birth certificates indicate their sex as male, and Basil Argento, a man whose birth certificate indicates his sex as female. Argento said trouble with his birth certificate has caused delays in him gaining Italian citizenship and in being able to get married. Most states allow people to change their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity rather than the gender they were assigned at birth. “A birth certificate that doesn’t accurately reflect the biological realities of an individual becomes a meaningless, if not harmful, document.

Source: Washington Post March 29, 2018 15:00 UTC