A proposed settlement between the state of Illinois and the ACLU, has changed how the state handles birth certificates for individuals who have undergone a sex change. Under prior Illinois law, for an individual to change the gender on his or her birth certificate required the individual have modified genitals as a result of the operation.
The ACLU sued alleging Illinois’s rules for updating birth certificates were too strict. The ACLU said that some sex change operations do not involve modifying the genitals for medical or financial reasons. The proposed settlement would now allow people to change the gender on their birth certificate if they had a sex-change operation that does not include modifying their genitals.
An agreement to change Illinois’s rules permanently has been filed in with the Cook County Circuit Court, but the settlement has not yet been approved.
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