Leslie's Law Blog

The debate over the legal rights of transgender people continues at the national, state and local levels. The discussion centers around specific legislation, now commonly referred to as “Bathroom Bills,” which aim to regulate public bathroom access by making it illegal for people to use a restroom that does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Generally speaking, proposed laws would require transgender men to use the women's bathroom and transgender women to

Under new laws enacted July 3, 2018 by Gov. Phil Murphy, the estimated 30,100 transgender people living in New Jersey will now have the legal right to alter the sex recorded on their birth and death certificates. The Birth Certificate Bill, now known as the “Babs Siperstein Law,” requires the state Registrar of Vital Statistics to issue an amended birth certificate to a person born in the state that bears the transgender person’s name and sex. The law was named after Siperst