LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Last week we saw the state of New York require that insurance companies cover gender reassignment surgery or other treatments deemed necessary by doctors of trans residents. In addition, the city of New York… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — In a vote that was as close as a Bush-era presidential election, the American Medical Association’s policy making panel decided that transgender people need not have surgery to get their gender ID change on… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Buried under the ongoing media coverage of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’ Bridgegate scandals is the news that two state senators reintroduced a bill that would delete the requirement trans people undergo surgery before… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Update — Jan 13, 2014: Gov. Christie vetos bill. See below.) A New Jersey Senate committee approved a bill allowing trans people to amend their birth certificates after receiving ‘clinically appropriate treatment’ — surgery will… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — In a move that is certain reduce the misgendering of intersex children and the sometimes tragic consequences that follow, a German constitutional court decision made it law that a parent do not have to choose… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Flying almost under the radar last week in the midst of headlines of attacks on numerous trans women in the city, the Washington DC Council unanimously approved a simplified process of changing gender markers on… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — As it turns out, nightmares that come with getting gender marker changed on birth certificates isn’t exclusive to trans people — cis-gendered people sometimes run into the same bureaucratic nonsense trans people face regularly. Take… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — An affidavit from a doctor is all a transgender resident of Washington DC will need to get new birth certificate with the correct gender according to a new bill recently submitted to the DC city… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A court-supervised agreement allows transgender people in Illinois to change birth certificates gender marker without full sex reassignment surgeries provided their physician signs off the vital records affidavit. John Knight of the ACLU: “This agreement… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — In finding that the Vital Statistics Act’s requirement of SRS (sex reassignment surgery) before allowing birth certificate gender change as discriminatory, the Ontario (Canada) Human Rights Tribunal has made a ruling that is likely to… Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A 70-year-old trans man had sex reassignment surgery (SRS) but the New York City Health Department was giving him the runaround when it came to changing his birth certificate. So Louis Birney took them to court…. Read More ›
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A ruling from a Cook County (IL) Circuit Court judge has made it easier to obtain a gender change on one’s birth certificate, but it is far from being certain for everyone that applies for… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS 