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Chicago - Citing the need to have an accurate birth certificate for identification purposes, two women born in Illinois today asked a court to order the State to issue new birth certificates that reflect their appropriate and accurate gender following gender confirmation surgery (sometimes
Courts need to balance and reconcile two competing and equally important legal rights when determining whether public high schools can limit student speech that disparages other people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation and similar protected statuses, according to a legal brief fi