The U.S. District Court in Southern Ohio has sided with transgender residents who sought to overturn a state policy blocking them from changing sex markers on their birth certificates, reports The Columbus Dispatch.
Until today, Ohio had the ignominious distinction of being one of only two states that prohibited transgender people from changing their genders on their birth certificates. (Tennessee is the other.) On March 29, 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s refusal to correct the gender marker on birth certificates for transgender people, for any reason, at any time.