In Re RW Heilig

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• holding that Maryland trial court had jurisdiction to rule on a petition for sex change
• recognizing that, at the time, twenty-two states had enacted statutes expressly enabling such amendments and twenty states had statutes dealing generally with amendments to birth certificates
• recognizing that, at the time, twenty-two states had enacted statutes expressly enabling such amendments and twenty states had statutes dealing generally with amendments to birth certificates; only Tennessee statutorily forbade an amendment as to gender
• stating that actions to change incorrect information on a person‘s birth certificate ―relate principally to the legal status or identification of an individual‖
• discussing the concept of gender in the context of transsexuals and how, as medically possible, the outward and physical manifestations of gender may be changed
• discussing the concept of gender in the context of transsexuals and how, as medically possible, the outward and physical manifestations of gender may be changed

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