HARTFORD, Conn. — A bill that would make it easier for transgender people in Connecticut to update their names and gender on their birth certificates faces one more legislative hurdle.
The proposal faces a final vote in the Senate. The House of Representatives passed the bill on a bipartisan 126-18 vote Thursday night.
Under the bill, any person who has undergone surgical, hormonal or other clinically appropriate treatment for gender transition can change their sex on their birth certificate. Regulations now only allow people to change the designation after completing gender reassignment surgery.
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The Department of Motor Vehicles already allows transgender people to change the designation on their driver’s licenses without showing proof of surgery.
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