Bill aims to make it impossible to change gender marker on V

[Ayla]

Virginia:   The process for transgender people to change the gender marker on their birth certificates in the Commonwealth isn’t necessarily easy, but there are currently steps in place to make it happen.

But a Delegate from one of the state’s most northern districts is hoping to make it impossible for it to happen in any way.

HB 431, sponsored by Del. Dave LaRock (D-33), aims to allow people to change the gender marker on their state issued birth certificate only if the “initial designation of sex was incorrect due to a typographical error.” ..

Currently Idaho, Kansas, Tennessee and Ohio are the only states who will not change gender markers on birth certificates for any reason. If LaRock’s bill were to pass, Virginia would join those four states.

“In order to live safe, full, and authentic lives, it is essential that transgender people have access to identity documents, such as photo ID, that accurately reflect their current name, gender identity, and gender expression,” reads the ID Marker section of the Transgender Law Center’s website.

Conversely, Equality Virginia is working toward easing the process of gender marker changes through the department of Vital Records with an online public comment period running over the next few months.

“Are there not other issues that are so much more important than this?” remarked Fletcher, when asked about her own opinion of the bill. “There’s certain people out there grasping at straws, trying to damp down the LGBTQ community in any way they can, to make life more difficult for them.”

LaRock, along with famed anti-LGBTQ delegate Bob Marshall, has also authored a bill which aims to force transgender students to use the restroom aligned their birth gender, as well as remove protections for LGBTQ students in state schools.   

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[Deleted]

I wonder what it's like to hate somebody so much that you'll go out of your way to make their lives unhappy.  I suppose we can all be mean from time to time, but we don't make it the cornerstone of our lives.

HB 431, sponsored by Del. Dave LaRock (D-33), aims to allow people to change the gender marker on their state issued birth certificate only if the “initial designation of sex was incorrect due to a typographical error.”

Yes, we'll correct it if it's a typo.  But if it's a much more serious error--e.g., failing to understand what transgenderism is, failing to see transpeople as people who have a dire need to be recognized for what they are--no, we won't correct an error like that.  If it's an accident, we'll correct it.  But if we do it because we can't or won't cop on, your tough luck.

[Trinity]

Sooner or later itll go to the supteme court. Unless something like the Cuomo exec action goes down.

Its all blatant civil rights violations ad nauseum.

Next election is gunna be ugly.

Trin.