SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- It was a life-changing day in court for many on Wednesday in Santa Clara County. The Superior Court marked its first-ever celebration of Name and Gender Marker Change Day.

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Attorney Chad Eggspuehler, Hailey Adelaide and attorney Maya Simek sit in front of the large gavel at the Ohio Supreme Court. Simek and Eggspuehler represented Adelaide as she fought for equal access ...

A protester in Kansas City carries a sign with students from Crossroads Preparatory Academy on April 13, 2022 who walked out of class to protest anti-LGBTQ bills in the Missouri legislature. The ...

Rep. Justin Sparks, a Wildwood Republican, has proposed a bill ahead of the 2025 legislative session that limits gender-marker changes only to those that match sex assigned at birth. Above, he speaks ...

Transgender Texans are no longer able to change the gender marker on their state IDs, including if they have a court order or they have an amended birth certificate, according to KUT. The only way ...

On January 20, 2025, the US Department of State stopped processing passport applications and issuing new passports with the marker X, which denotes unspecified or other gender identities, as well as ...

The state of transgender documents in the United States: This article breaks down the current state of X gender markers on passports, how to update the gender marker on your state ID, and more as of ...