Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits minors from updating the gender on their own birth certificate.

Highlights:

• Requires there be a space to list the biological sex on birth certificates (Sec. 1).  

• Requires whoever is filling out the birth certificate list the biological sex of the child (Sec. 1).  

• Specifies that the child's biological sex does not need to be filled out right away if they have atypical or ambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile (Sec. 1). 

• Authorizes the amending of the birth certificate for any child born with atypical or ambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile once by including the child's determined sex (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits the state registrar, local registrar, or other person who issues a birth certificate from a issuing an amended birth certificate that incorporates the completed or corrected biological sex information for a minor unless (Sec. 3): 

• The correction fixes a clerical error; and

• The birth certificate does not meet the requirements of listing the biological sex. 

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