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Ninth Circuit lifts block on Arizona law requiring verification of sex change

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The two-judge panel emphasized how transgender people who have not undergone sex change surgery can still amend their birth certificate through a court order, like any other Arizonan.

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  1. Arizona Capitol Times

    Federal ruling allows transgender people to change birth certificates with court order (opens Arizona Capitol Times)

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    Transgender Arizonans can get amended birth certificates showing their gender identity without first undergoing surgery, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The post Federal ruling allows transgender people to change birth certificates with court order first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .

  2. Courthouse News Service

    Ninth Circuit lifts block on Arizona law requiring verification of sex change (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    The two-judge panel emphasized how transgender people who have not undergone sex change surgery can still amend their birth certificate through a court order, like any other Arizonan.

  3. Advocate

    Transgender Arizonans don’t need surgery to update birth certificates, federal appeals court confirms (opens Advocate)

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    Transgender people born in Arizona can obtain court orders to change the sex markers on their birth certificates to align with their gender identity without having to undergo surgery, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The ruling clarified a process that has blocked some applicants. The 9th U.S.