NY Appellate Division Rules on Transsexual Name-Change Petition

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11/28/2008

Rejecting a trial judge's objection that a gendered name-change would cause "confusion," a unanimous panel of the New York Appellate Division, 3rd Department, ruled on November 26 in _Matter of Earl William Golden III_, No. 504992, that the trial court should have ordered the name change, but should include in its order a statement
that the name change could not be used as proof of a change of sex.  Franklin Romeo of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project represented Golden on the appeal.