Changing sex on birth certificates

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This article is for instructions on changing sex on U.S., Canadian and other Birth Certificates.

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[edit] Australia

A person whose birth was registered in the Australia, may apply to the Births Register for alteration of the record of the person’s sex, in the registration of the person’s birth. Included in the petition you will need the declaration of two doctors verifying that GRS has been completed. Other documents and information may be requested. There is a fee for the cost of a new birth certificate.

The new birth certificate will not include any word or statement to the effect that the person to whom the certificate relates, has changed sex.

[edit] Canada

[edit] Montréal

Any person (of Canadian citizen of full legal age and domiciled in Montréal for at least one year) who has successfully undergone GRS may obtain a change of designation of sex his or her act of birth and, (if necessary) a change of given names.

To successfully complete the Application for a change of designation of sex, (that you can obtain from the Directeur de l’état civil) your application must include a certificate from the attending physician and an attestation of successful treatment from another physician practicing in Montréal; in addition to other relevant documents.

Your application is subject to the same procedure as an application for a name change, however, the applicant is not required to publish notice beforehand. However, when the application is approved, the Directeur de l’état civil will publish its decision in the Gazette officielle du Québec.

An administrative fee of $125 is charged for an application for a change of designation of sex. After the application is approved, a Certificate of Change of Designation of Sex is mailed to you without charge.

[edit] United Kingdom

New birth certificates

A person whose birth was registered in the UK and who has been granted a full Gender Recognition Certificate will be able to obtain a new birth certificate showing his or her acquired gender.

A birth certificate is a full copy of the details in a record in a birth register, or in the case of a short certificate, some of the details in the record. The record contains the facts of a person’s birth, including name and gender.

The Registrar General can issue a replacement birth certificate to a transsexual person only where the record of the birth or adoption is held by the Registrar General. This includes people born in the UK, or born to a UK citizen abroad and registered, for example, by HM Forces, or the British Consul or High Commission.

Once a Full Gender Recognition Certificate is issued the Gender Recognition Panel will notify the Registrar General for England and Wales of the issue of a Gender Recognition Certificate to a person who was born or adopted in England or Wales. The Registrar General for England and Wales holds a Gender Recognition Register in which the birth of a transsexual person whose acquired gender has been legally recognised will be registered again showing new name(s) and recognised gender.

Registrars General for Scotland and Northern Ireland hold similar registers for people born in those countries.

A draft of the information to be recorded in the Gender Recognition Register will be sent to the applicant to help to clarify what the new birth certificate will look like and to resolve any questions before the record is made. On confirmation from the applicant that the draft record contains the correct information, a new record will be created in the Gender Recognition Register.

Where the transsexual person was adopted or has a birth record made overseas by, for example, a British Consul the new register will reflect that fact. Current contact details such as address will not be recorded in the register.

A confidential link between the original and new details will be maintained by the Registrar General. The Gender Recognition Register will not be open to public inspection or search.

Once a new record is made, both full and short birth certificates will be available. There will be nothing on the birth certificate to indicate it was compiled from information in the Gender Recognition Register. A short certificate, which shows only the name, sex, date of birth, district and sub-district of birth, will be issued free of charge to the applicant. Details of how to apply for birth certificates and the cost will be sent to the applicant with the draft of the information to be recorded in the Gender Recognition Register.

A full birth certificate (long version) is currently 11.50 GPB and a shortened version is 7.00 GPB.

The web site can be found here Gender Recognition Panel

[edit] United States

Please see Changing sex on birth certificates in the US

[edit] See also

Changing sex on driver's licenses

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