And what can be done about it?
Ohio's laws are totally unjust and anti-trans. They do not change the gender on your birth certificate, even after you get SRS. That's not all. I wrote to a university in Ohio which I once graduated from and requested a name and gender change in my student records. They wrote back and said I can get a diploma issued in my new name if I send in the old diploma plus $25. But by Ohio law they're not allowed to change my gender.
How and when did Ohio make such a discriminatory law? And how will it ever be changed? What can we do about it? I'm so sorry I had the misfortune to be born in that transphobic state.
The
Ohio Birth Certificate Project was planning legal action in the courts to change the anti-trans law. I signed up for their
mailing list, but there has been no news lately. Is it stalled? Is it going to happen?
If it would help, I would write to every single Ohio state senator and representative to repeal whatever stupid law discriminates against us like this. Governor Strickland this year issued
a ban on gender identity discrimination for state employees, which gives me a glimmer of hope that Ohio may not be eternally benighted.
How will we ever get the law changed?
