Three transgender Puerto Ricans win suit to change gender markers
Source: The Hill
BY AVERY ANAPOL - 07/28/18 08:12 AM EDT
Transgender Puerto Ricans may now legally correct their birth certificates to match their gender identity. The policy change, which came into effect earlier this month, follows a federal lawsuit brought by three individuals and an LGBT rights group.
Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo signed the order earlier this month, according to NBC Miami.
“The right to identify our own existence lies at the heart of one’s humanity,” Cerezo wrote in the decision. “And so, we must heed their voices: 'the woman that I am,' 'the man that I am.'"
The legal fight for transgender individuals to be able to change their birth certificate gender marker to align with their gender identity has been ongoing for more than a decade in Puerto Rico. A 2005 lawsuit brought by a transgender woman to have her birth certificate modified was denied.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/399319-three-transgender-puerto-ricans-win-suit-to-change-gender-markers
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