On Monday, the Senate voted 32-3 in favor of the bill that would allow any person who has undergone surgical, hormonal or other clinically appropriate treatment for gender transition to change their sex on their birth certificate, WCBS 880’s Sean Adams reported. Regulations currently only allow people to change the designation after completing gender-reassignment surgery.
Stephen Glassman, executive director of ACLU of Connecticut, said the legislation “modernizes our outdated laws and makes Connecticut a national leader once again in an evolving understanding of transgender rights.”
Glassman said attitudes about transgender people are changing.
“I think the very public transition of Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce Jenner), that everyone in the country’s now aware of, has really personalized this,” he told Adams.
