Amendment ID: S735-5

Amendment 5

Amendment of Birth Certificate

Mr. Tarr moves to amend the bill by inserting at the end thereof the following new section:-

“SECTION __.

A birth certificate, as established by chapter 46, which has been amended by the provisions set forth in sections 13 and 13A which delineates a person’s gender identity shall create a rebuttable presumption of such person’s sincerely held gender identity.”;

and by adding after paragraph(e) after line 91 in section 13 of chapter 46 the following:-

(e)(1)  If a person has engaged in psychotherapy, hormone therapy, medical intervention or surgical therapy for the purpose of gender dissonance between natal sex and gender identity experienced, the birth record of that person shall be amended to permanently and accurately reflect the reassigned sex if the following documents have been received by the state registrar or town clerk:

(i) an affidavit executed by the person to whom the record relates affirming the condition of (e)(1), and the inaccuracy of the sex recorded; and

(ii) a physician's notarized statement that the person has engaged medical intervention, appropriate for that individual, for the purpose of gender dissonance between natal sex and gender identity experienced.

(2) The affiant shall furnish a certified copy of the legal change of name if the affiant is seeking a birth record with the legal change of name instead of the name as appearing on the birth record prior to the amendment.