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Official WPATH Statement on Surgery Requirements for Identity Recognition

Submitted by Ryan on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 6:56pm

WPATH recommends that identity documents be issued without the requirement for gender realignment surgery.

The Board of Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), in the interest of the health and well-being of transgender and transsexual people world-wide, issued today, 16 June 2010, the following identity recognition statement:

No person should have to undergo surgery or accept sterilization as a condition of identity recognition.  If a sex marker is required on an identity document, that marker could recognize the person’s lived gender, regardless of reproductive capacity.  The WPATH Board of Directors urges governments and other authoritative bodies to move to eliminate requirements for identity recognition that require surgical procedures.

Passport Gender Change Template

Submitted by Ryan on Sat, 06/12/2010 - 3:35pm

Sample templates have been released that show what the State Department expects to see from a doctor writing your letter for your gender marker change on your passports. It is suggested that you use one of these for quickest success on your passport change.

7 FAM 1320 APPENDIX M EXHIBIT B MODEL LETTER FOR ATTENDING PHYSICIAN CERTIFYING TO THE APPLICANT’S GENDER CHANGE

(CT:CON-334; 06-10-2010)

Attending Physician’s Letterhead

(Physician’s Address and Telephone Number)

I, (physician’s full name), (physician’s medical license or certificate number), (issuing State of medical license/certificate), DEA registration number), am the attending physician of (name of patient), with whom I have a doctor/patient relationship. (The letter must indicate that the physician is either an internist, endocrinologist, gynecologist, urologist or psychiatrist.)

(Name of patient) has had appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition to the new gender (specify new gender male or female).

Or

(Name of patient) is in the process of gender transition to the new gender (specify new gender male or female).

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the forgoing is true and correct.

Signature of Physician

Typed Name of Physician

Date

Nevada DMV No Longer Requires Proof of Surgery to Change Gender Marker

Submitted by Ryan on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 11:08am

Did you think we had it bad here in Washington state when we needed a letter from an MD that we were being treated for GID? Well, until now, transfolks in Nevada had it even worse. You see, you needed a letter from a sugeon that proved that you've had surgery. For some residents of Nevada, this requirement put the very idea of changing their gender marker on what is commonly thought to be a foundational document out of reach. A foundational document is one that establishes your identity. For example, it is what you need to show when you apply for a job to prove that you are legally allowed to work in the US.

After the ACLU and Equality Nevada expressed their concerns about the actions of some DMV workers against transgender citizens, a meeting was set up between officials from the DMV and the state Attorney General's office to work on acceptable compromises. The new system requires a simple form filled out by your primary care physician that states that you are:

Licensing Success

Submitted by marsha on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 3:45pm
Dear Friends,
 
This is how equality can be brought out of the confusion within bureaucratic systems: 
By working together with unfailing respect for each other – and giving this same respect to the other side of the system for as long as those representatives show honest commitment to the work.  
 
By recognizing the particular skills of each participant, and by never quitting the process, even when to keep going means working without recognition or praise. 
 
By calling every skill and every idea into the work. 
 
And we have succeeded! The issue today is the advance in Washington State’s Driver’s License Policy regarding changing gender markers. The unworkable birth certificate approach has been abandoned, and the new Policy is much closer to the great goal of a policy that truly improves lives while also meeting governmental needs. 

State Drops Birth Certificate Requirement for Driver's License Marker

Submitted by Barbara on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 7:27am
The State of Washington has turned down the heat of an intense battle for identification in a more security-conscious world by eliminating the requirement for an updated birth certificate before changing a gender marker on a driver’s license. The state returns to a simpler time when a medical letter from a certified professional and a current driver’s license is all that’s required for individuals to participate in their transition to new identities. 
The decision comes after months of negotiations between the state and gender identity specialists — including representatives of Ingersoll Gender Center. “I thank all my colleagues for their tireless work in accomplishing this goal,” says Ingersoll founder and Board chair, Marsha Botzer. “We have worked long and hard on this project - and indeed, we will not ever quit until full equality is a fact for all Trans and Gender Identity people.”
 
New rules indicating the change will soon appear on the Department of Licensing Web site at http://www.dol.wa.gov/driverslicense/change.html .
The following paragraph will be removed from the current requirement:

An amended, certified copy of your birth certificate showing your new gender. If you cannot get an amended, certified copy of your birth certificate, include a copy of the letter on official letterhead from the state or country where you were born denying your request for an amended birth certificate, or a note indicating the state or country where you were born didn't respond to your request for an amended birth certificate. If the state or county doesn't respond to your request, we will work with you to get an amended birth certificate, denial letter, or confirmation that neither is available.

The change in rules earlier in this decade was a response to the Bush administration’s “Real ID” call to upgrade standards nationally for the identification Americans typically use to board an airliner. Washington was one of many states that refused to comply with the “Real ID” act, even though the administration threatened to bar anyone without a “real ID” – compliant license from boarding a plane.   Still, the state did stiffen its license regulations — including the rule to change a gender marker. 
Washington is the ONLY state in the union where natives of the state can change their birth certificate gender without undergoing surgery, which state officials thought would make the new rule less threatening. However, many who seek Washington state driver’s licenses come from states or countries that either require surgery for gender marker changes or do not even allow any changes to an original birth certificate.
 
 
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