Maine TV station WCSH. The application must also include a declaration from a licensed physician or mental health care provider that the request is consistent with the minor’s gender identity.The move comes after the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to the press earlier this year that it was considering shifting its rules for gender markers on birth certificates.In 2018, the state began offering nonbinary people the option to change their gender markers on driver’s licenses and ID cards.
Other states, like Minnesota, followed. Last year, Maine expanded that option so that nonbinary people would be able to change their gender marker without a signature from a medical professional. "These changes are really exciting.