Colo. May Amend Trans Birth Certificates

On Thursday, a Colorado House committee advanced legislation that would make it much easier for people who identify as transgender to have the sex on their birth certificates amended. Currently, the process requires a court order and can be lengthy while still leaving a notation of the change. The new legislation only requires a note from a medical or mental-health professional detailing that the person seeking the request is experiencing surgical, hormonal, or other treatment, not just a sex change. Critics of the law tried to make surgery a requirement out of fear of “child abuse and fraud.”