New York City Birth Certificate 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.
December 2006: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene withdrew a proposed amendment to the Health Code that would have given access to accurate birth certificates to many transgender people. Read More
October 2006: Proposed changes to New York City's birth certificate policy:
2002-2003: Below are the letters we've sent them, which may be useful to you if you are doing similar advocacy in your city or state.
