Posted on Advocate.com July 19, 2011 08:55:00 PM ET
Ill. to Issue New Birth Certificates to Litigants
By Trudy Ring

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/07/19/Ill_to_Issue_New_Birth_Certificates_to_Litigants/

Three trangender Illinois residents will soon receive new birth certificates reflecting their correct gender, after an order issued last week by a Cook County Circuit Court judge in an ongoing lawsuit over gender markers.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed suit in May challenging the state's refusal to correct the gender on birth certificates for people who have had gender-reassignment (or, at the ACLU puts it, gender-confirmation) surgery, but not the specific forms of genital surgery demanded by state agencies.