{"id":1012,"date":"2014-06-18T21:56:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2014-06-18T21:56:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:56:24","slug":"ama-removes-surgery-requirement-for-birth-certificate-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1012","title":{"rendered":"AMA Removes Surgery Requirement for Birth Certificate Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association has announced that transgender surgery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2014\/06\/09\/ama-says-transgender-patients-dont-need-surgery-to-change-birth-certificate\/\">should not be a necessary requiremen<\/a>t for changes in birth certificates. Most states mandate both a court order and proof of surgery for changes in birth certificates although New York recently removed the surgery requirement. On the other hand, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation in New Jersey to permit a clinical sex change for use in amending the birth certificate gender. AMA\u2019s new policy language states: \u201cRequiring sex-reassignment surgery places a burden on an already marginalized population.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association has announced that transgender surgery should not be a necessary requirement for changes in birth certificates. Most states mandate both a court order and proof of surgery for changes in birth certificates although New York recently removed the surgery requirement. On the other hand, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}