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Ohio Reviews Transgender Birth Certificate Case
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio attorney general’s office says it’s reviewing a lawsuit filed by four transgender people who want the gender listings on their birth certificates changed to properly reflect their identities.
The state Department of Health has declined to comment.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs and says the state prevents them from obtaining documents essential to everyday living and subjects transgender people to discrimination and potential violence.
The lawsuit asks a court to declare Ohio’s birth certification policy unconstitutional and to prohibit the state from refusing to allow transgender people to make adjustments.
Plaintiff Stacie Ray’s birth certificate lists her gender as male. Ray insisted Thursday she is “a woman” and called the lack of an accurate birth certificate “humiliating.”