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Illinois To Ease Requirements For Transgender Birth Certificate Changes | A proposed court-supervised agreement filed today will ease restrictions for transgender people born in Illinois to obtain new birth certificates that reflect their correct gender. Previously, trans people had to provide documentation of genital surgery in order to get a new certificate, procedures many trans people choose not to get — in part because a consequence of the surgery is reproductive sterility. Having proper identification on documents helps protect trans people from potential embarrassment, hostility, or harm from being outed to strangers when their ID doesn’t match how they identify.
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