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Judge Rules New York City’s Requirements For Changing Gender On ID Documents An ‘Undue Roadblock’ | A judge recently ruled that New York City was overreaching when city health officials demanded that a transgender man submit detailed surgical records and a psychiatric report in order to switch the gender on his birth certificate. The ruling, by Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Paul G. Feinman, marks a small victory for advocates seeking to make it easier for people who are transg to update their identity documents, as the process has become a growing concern. For example, it is not uncommon to have one sex listed on a driver’s license and another on a birth certificate because of a patchwork of agencies and rules. Louis Birney was among a number of trans people who sued the city last year over their efforts to change their birth certificates. — Fatima Najiy