October 4, 2009
Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits
…with a sex change.
New name + new gender = brand new birth certificate
Sex change is not the relevant issue.
It’s the fact that in at least one instance, brand new birth certificates are issued to adults instead of amending the original.
HAWAII Statute: Haw. Rev. Stat. Ann. 338-17.7(a) & (4) (B) (2004)
Hawaii will change both name and sex, and will issue a new birth certificate rather than amend the old one.
You will need an original, or certified, copy of the letter from your SRS surgeon. A court order is not required.
(a) The department of health shall establish, in the following circumstances, a new certificate of birth for a person born in the state who already has a birth certificate filed with the department and who was referred to below as the “birth registrant”; 4) Upon receipt of an affidavit of a physician that the physician has examined the birth registrant and determined the following: (B) The birth registrant has had a sex change operation and the sex designation on the birth registrant’s birth certificate is no longer correct; provided that the director of health may further investigate and require addition information that the director deems necessary.
Alvin T. Onaka, Ph.D
State Registrar and Acting Chief
Office of Health Status Monitoring
