Abortion advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill that, if passed, would nullify the results of Ohio’s 2023 referendum ...

Newly reintroduced House Bill 1313 asks legislators one more time to support removing sex from birth certificates. The bill, originated by state Rep. Ben Sanchez, D-153, Abington, suggests reportin… ...

Ohioans who want to modify their birth certificates must apply to their county's probate court, which then sends the documentation to the Ohio Department of Health. That's what Adelaide did in 2021.

This is part one of a two-part series examining how the state's jumble of statutes and court rulings impacts transgender people who need to change the gender marker on their birth certificates.

A federal court told Ohio officials in 2020 that the state had to find a way for people who identify as transgender to change the gender markers on their birth certificates.

In Ohio, a procedure for transgender people to change their birth certificate was established by the Ohio Department of Health in 2021. The process was created after a 2020 federal ruling found ...

Justices on the Ohio Supreme Court said state laws do not allow transgender individuals to correct the “sex marker” on their birth certificates, but also admitted the court could not come to a ...

The Ohio Supreme Court effectively upheld a probate court’s decision to deny an application to change the sex marker on the birth certificate of a transgender woman Tuesday morning.

Ohio does allow changes to birth certificates in other circumstances, including adoption and changing one's legal name. Changes to one's sex marker are allowed if a doctor records the sex as ...

This story has been updated to include a statement from Equality Ohio. Transgender Ohioans face uncertainty about changing their birth certificates after the Ohio Supreme Court declined to rule on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) — In a rare and unusual decision, the Ohio Supreme Court failed to reach a consensus on the disposition of a case involving a transgender woman's attempt to modify her birth ...