The city is facing lawsuits from transgendered people over the hurdles they face in changing their sex on birth certificates. The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund is challenging the Health Department’s requirement for proof of a sex-reassignment procedure. “No laws have to be changed,” said Noah Lewis, an attorney for the group. “All the city has to do is treat transgender people like everyone else and go by the medical documents they provide.”

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