Areas of Work: Identity Documents
Inmigrantes Trans en Nueva York
Trans Immigrants in New York In this brochure: • Name Changes for Immigrants in New York • Name and Gender Change on Immigration Documents • Trans Marriage Recognition • The Real ID Act • Asylum for Trans People
Una guía para la gente Trans en la ciudad de Nueva York
Instrucciones cómo cambiar legalmente su nombre en Nueva York.
This article also discusses New York State's Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court ruling that transgender people can change their names "at will", without any medical requirements or surgery-regardless of a judge's "confusion".
Recently, SRLP joined the NY Coalition for Immigrants' Rights to Drivers' Licenses. This important coalition, consisting of dozens of New York organizations, is opposing new policies designed to suspend the licenses of immigrants in New York State.
On October 24th, 2003, SRLP received a favorable decision in Matter of Guido, a case where we were fighting for a transgender woman to be allowed to change her name
A summary of the issues discussed at the meeting with the Office of Vital Statistics in February, 2003.
What does the current policy say?
Right now, transgender people born in New York City can never get birth certificates that reflect our new gender. If we provide proof of having had vaginoplasty or phalloplasty (types of genital surgery), we can get a birth certificate that shows no gender at all.
What's wrong with the current policy?
For several years, until late in 2006, SRLP worked with the New York City Bureau of Vital Statistics to try to get them to change their birth certificate sex designation change policy to not require genital surgery which they failed to do. The materials linked below document the history of SRLP's work on this issue, and may be helpful to activists working on similar issues elsewhere.


