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  Before this week, Ohio was one of two states that banned trans people from updating the gender marker listed on their birth certificates. But on Wednesday, a federal court struck down the discriminatory policy in a decisive ruling. In a strongly worded 28-page opinion, Judge Michael Watson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said the state’s four-year-old policy of refusing to correct transgender birth certificates resembled other “discrimination-based legislation.” He specifically cited Romer v. Evans, a landmark 1996 Supreme Court case finding that Colorad...

I am caught between two minds pondering on a proposal announced by the government in Bill 170, clause 22, which allows parents to leave the sex field blank on the birth registration when the gender of the child is unclear. Presented as an important change, what is unclear to me is whether the “undeclared” classification will be applied when, biologically, the sex of the child is in doubt, as in the case of intersex, or whether parents will be allowed to leave it empty even when the sex of the child is clear. The intersex case I am not professionally competent to say if this will help inte...

Protesters marched in New York City in June to decry Trump administration policies targeting transgender people.Demetrius Freeman/NYT Last month, Joe Biden did something no other president-elect had done in a victory speech — he specifically thanked the transgender community as part of what he called “the broadest and most diverse” coalition in history. It wasn’t the first time Biden mentioned the trans community, which has suffered its deadliest year ever. As the Democratic nominee, Biden called anti-trans violence “an epidemic that needs national leadership.” W...