The Ohio Department of Health declined to appeal a December federal court ruling requiring the agency to accept requests from transgender people to reflect a gender different from the one assigned at birth, according to a Thursday court filing.
The agency is now working on a process for people to request the change and expects to have it in place by June 1, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Tuesday.
The Ohio Department of Health is also “updating its communications on this issue to reflect compliance with the Court’s December 16, 2020 Order,” according to the filing.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio found that the state’s rule that prohibited making a change to a person’s gender on their birth certificate was