NYC Rapped in Transgender Birth Certificate Case

[SandraJane]

edge Provincetown, Massachusetts



NYC Rapped in Transgender Birth Certificate Case


by Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press | Tuesday Mar 27, 2012

http://www.edgeptown.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=131341

NEW YORK (AP) - He had been through sex-change surgery and wanted his birth certificate to reflect the man he'd become, at nearly 70.

City health officials said they needed a psychiatric report and detailed surgical records to switch the gender on his birth certificate - requirements that put up undue roadblocks, a judge recently ruled in a case that highlights legal questions around a sensitive issue of identity.

[Felix]

Judge criticises New York City over birth certificate change for trans man

Pink News
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/26/judge-criticises-new-york-city-over-birth-certificate-change-for-trans-man/

Justice Paul G. Feinman of the Manhattan State Supreme Court, who ruled on Mr Birney's lawsuit, reprimanded the authorities for not providing a "clear, straightforward list" of what it takes to amend the birth certificate. "It does not seem very likely that an individual would go through all the years of required preparation for surgical transition, including psychotherapy, undergo major surgery, assume life under his or her new gender, and then decide it was all a mistake and change back," Feinman wrote in his judgement. "This apparent assumption tends to suggest a certain ignorance by the department of the lengthy transition process and the lives and experience of transgender people," he added.

[justmeinoz]

If that isn't a Judicial kick in the pants, I don't know what is.

Karen.