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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Kreuzfidel on April 04, 2012, 10:54:55 PM

Title: Are there any Louisiana-born transfolk out there?
Post by: Kreuzfidel on April 04, 2012, 10:54:55 PM
I could use some help.  I was born in Louisiana and can't make sense of the requirements for correcting your birth certificate there.  I live in Australia, so going to talk to a Louisiana lawyer is not possible right now.  What surgery constitutes "anatomical correction of sex"?  Do I need to get an official diagnosis from a psychiatrist, too?  Please, I am stressing too much over this :(
Title: Re: Are there any Louisiana-born transfolk out there?
Post by: Felix on April 04, 2012, 11:18:25 PM
Quote from: Kreuzfidel on April 04, 2012, 10:54:55 PM
I could use some help.  I was born in Louisiana and can't make sense of the requirements for correcting your birth certificate there.  I live in Australia, so going to talk to a Louisiana lawyer is not possible right now.  What surgery constitutes "anatomical correction of sex"?  Do I need to get an official diagnosis from a psychiatrist, too?  Please, I am stressing too much over this :(
If you get a surgeon with a medical degree to say the requirements have been met, they aren't likely to look into what exactly that entails. A lot of people for social security just keep the surgeon's statement vague. Idk about Louisiana particularly though.
Title: Re: Are there any Louisiana-born transfolk out there?
Post by: Kreuzfidel on April 05, 2012, 12:29:19 AM
Thanks, Felix.  It would really throw a huge cog in the works if I couldn't get it changed without bottom surgery :(