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The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has ruled that nonbinary and gender non-conforming people on the island can update their birth ...

Residents of Puerto Rico who claim they are “nonbinary” will now be permitted to have an identifier on their birth ...

Georgia is now allowing adoptees over the age of 18 who were born in the state to secure copies of their original birth ...

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The U.S. Army, under guidance aligned with the Trump administration's transgender military ban, will revise records to reflect soldiers' sex at birth and enforce policies restricting pronoun use, ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A birth certificate could be requested by a sports club or hospital if there is “genuine concern” about what biological sex a person is ...