What trans and nonbinary people need to know about updating their passports and birth certificates
Trans and nonbinary people are able to update their passports with the sex marker that aligns with their gender identity as of June 17.
July 8, 2025
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Almost 5,000 New Yorkers have 'X' gender markers on their IDs
The Gender Recognition Act of 2022 made a third gender option available on state-issued identification in New York.
May 17, 2024
Montana Judge Rules Transgender Birth Certificate Law Unconstitutional
The judge also held the state in contempt for violating a court order regarding sex designation rules.
June 29, 2023
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Colorado Designer Wants to Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples
No gay couples have actually asked Lorie Smith to make wedding websites for them yet.
November 1, 2019
PHOTOS: Celebs Design Wedding Bands for LGBT Charities
Proposition Love puts a celebrity spin on your ceremony.
December 12, 2012
Denver Web Designer Who Refused Same-Sex Couples Loses Court Case
The law at the center of the case is the same as the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case from 2018.
July 28, 2021
Tennessee Judge Hands Down Devastating Decision for Transgender People
The four trans plaintiffs in Tennessee had sought to change the sex designation on their birth certificates.
June 26, 2023
New York I.D. Cards Will Soon Feature X Gender Marker Option
Changing names, sex designation, and birth certificates will also be easier due to the state's Gender Recognition Act.Â
May 30, 2022
Supreme Court Takes Case Involving Refusal to Serve Same-Sex Couples
A Colorado web designer says she will not provide wedding website creation services to same-sex couples.
February 22, 2022
Invitation Etiquette
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June 16, 2008
Having a Field Day
What's stopping Confessions of a Shopaholic costume designer Patricia Field from sewing up the Sex and the City sequel? Not Vivienne Westwood.
June 23, 2009
Supreme Court Appears to Lean Toward Ruling for Antigay Web Designer
The court's conservative majority seemed to sympathize with a designer who argues she has a legal right to turn away same-sex couples who seek wedding websites.
December 5, 2022
Supreme Court to Hear LGBTQ+ Rights Case Before End of Year
The court has set the date to hear the case of a Colorado web designer who says creating wedding websites for same-sex couples would violate her free speech rights.
October 19, 2022
A Lesbian Mother's Fight for Her Right to Parent
In her new book, Parent Deleted, Michelle Darne intimately recounts the legal and emotional battle for her nonbiological children in a system designed to undermine opposite-sex parents. Read an exclusive excerpt below.
August 8, 2017
Pete Buttigieg Slams SCOTUS 303 Creative Ruling: A 'Solution Looking for a Problem'
The Transportation Secretary discussed the case on CNN's "State of the Union."
July 3, 2023
AMA Advocates to Remove Assigned Sex From Birth Certificates
The news caused a stir with conservatives online after Web MD posted about the recommendation on social media.
August 5, 2021
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 to Limit LGBTQ+ Protections, Rules in Favor of Homophobe
This court has ruled that businesses open to the public can discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.
June 30, 2023
Lawsuit challenges Trump's 'two genders' passport policy
The State Department, acting on a presidential executive order, has ended the use of a third-gender marker on passports and won't allow gender changes on them.
February 12, 2025
Is the Trump Administration Trying to Discourage Trans Travelers?
Policy regarding gender markers on passports has not changed, but new language seems designed to create confusion.
September 13, 2018
Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker
LGBTQ+ groups applauded the move, which eliminates the need to provide documentation of gender.
October 20, 2022