Birth Certificates

After experiencing discrimination while receiving medical treatment, Hailey Adelaide pursued court orders to change her name and gender on her birth certificate.

Whether or not Ohioans can change the gender marker on their birth certificate depends on their county's location and probate court judge. That's even though a federal judge ordered the state to make the process available.

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments for and against a lower court’s decision to bar probate judges from allowing transgender individuals to request gender corrections to their birth certificates.

The Ohio Department of Health will not appeal a federal court ruling that barred the state from not allowing people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates.

A federal court says Ohio can’t keep refusing to allow people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates.The U.S. District Court for the…

Four transgender people challenging an Ohio rule preventing people from changing the gender listings on their birth certificates have won their day in…

Four transgender Ohioans are suing the state over a policy blocking them from changing their birth certificates to reflect the gender with which they…