Remove 'male' and 'female' from birth certificates? Here's why the country's largest group of physicians recommends it.
Now, the American Medical Association, the country's largest association of physicians, has taken a significant step in easing that burden. In a June report, the AMA's LGBTQ advisory committee advised the organization to push for removing sex labels from the public part of the birth certificate.
Assigning either a "male" or "female" sex at birth, the authors wrote, "fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity."