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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The case of a transgender woman whose request to change the sex marker on her birth certificate was rejected is heading to the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Tuesday after Hailey Adelaide’s application to correct the sex marker on her birth certificate was […]
Bethel School District's 66-year-old junior high is getting a $67 million makeover with heavy input from community members and students.
Ohio to allow transgender people to change birth certificate sex markers Jeremy Beaman © Provided by Washington Examiner The Ohio Department of Health will establish a procedure by which transgender people born in the state can amend their birth certificates to reflect the gender by which they identify. The agency is working to comply with a Dec. 16 court ruling that enjoined Ohio from enforcing its birth certificate policy and plans to have another method in place before June 1 allowing people to change the sex marker on their birth certificates, according to an April 22 co...
Pro Bono Spotlight By Michael Phillis | February 7, 2021, 8:02 PM EST The ACLU of Ohio, along with attorneys at Thompson Hine LLP and Lambda Legal, recently successfully challenged Ohio's policy forbidding transgender people from correcting their birth certificates to match their gender identity, convincing a judge that the state's policy was discriminatory. Driver's licenses and other documents could reflect an individual's real identity, but around 2016, Ohio started refusing to allow people to correct what plaintiffs called the "gender marker" on their birth certificate, a...
22 Dec 2020 A federal judge ruled last week that Ohio must allow “corrections” on birth certificates issued by the state from one’s biological sex to a chosen gender. Judge Michael Watson, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled on the case based on a lawsuit filed by three women and one man seeking to pick the gender opposite of their biological sex. Watson said not allowing people to pick what sex is on their birth certificate is “nothing more than thinly veiled post-hoc rationales to deflect from the discriminatory impact of the policy.” “This is truly a victory for the LGBT communit...