Massachusetts is one step closer to joining 26 other states around the country that allow residents to change the sex designation on their birth certificate ... documents and forms, which would ...

Massachusetts residents would be able to change the sex listed on their birth certificate to a nonbinary ... gender or an undesignated gender. The request would have to be accompanied by an ...

The legislation would erase the gap and allow adopted persons over the age of 18 to access their original birth certificate or the adopted parents of a child under 18 to access the document.