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Puerto Rico Can't Turn Back the Clock on Trans Rights

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March 3, 2020

Today, Lambda Legal warned Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced that the proposed new Civil Code for the Commonwealth, which is now before the Puerto Rico Senate, is in clear contempt of a 2018 federal court order that declared unconstitutional the island’s policy prohibiting transgender Puerto Ricans from correcting their birth certificates and could expose the Puerto Rican government to sanctions and penalties.

See Also: Transgender Rights
Puerto Rico Begins Allowing Transgender People to Change Their Birth Certificates

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July 16, 2018

Starting today, the Puerto Rican government must provide accurate birth certificates to transgender Puerto Ricans that reflect their gender identity.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Transgender Rights
This Groundbreaking Legal Opinion on Behalf of Transgender Puerto Ricans Will Give You Chills

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April 20, 2018

"Plaintiffs know they are not fodder for memoranda legalese. They have stepped up for those whose voices, debilitated by raw discrimination, have been hushed into silence."

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Victory! Court Tells Puerto Rico to Issue Accurate Birth Certificates for Transgender Puerto Ricans

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April 4, 2018

Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico struck down a policy that prevented transgender people born in Puerto Rico from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates and ordered Commonwealth officials to allow such corrections.
Puerto Rico Is Denying Transgender People Accurate Birth Certificates; Lambda Legal Is Suing

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June 26, 2017

Lambda Legal filed papers urging a federal court to strike down Puerto Rico’s policy denying transgender people accurate birth certificates.

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Lambda Legal Sues Puerto Rico for Anti-Transgender Birth Certificate Policy

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April 6, 2017

Lambda Legal today filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Puerto Ricans and the LGBT rights organization Puerto Rico Para Tod@s to compel the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to allow transgender individuals to correct the gender marker on their birth certificates.

See Also: Transgender Rights

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