Vital Records Act of 1977
The Vital Records Act of 1977 is a Tennessee statute that prohibits individuals from changing their sex on the original birth certificate as a result of sex change surgery. Tennessee is the only state specifically forbidding the correction of sex designations on birth certificates of transgender people.[1][2]
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