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Newlin, Alice, Should a Trip from Illinois to Tennessee Change a Woman into a Man?: Proposal for a Uniform Interstate Sex Reassignment Recognition Act. Columbia J. Gender & L. 461-503 (2008).
In the hypothetical posed by the author, a male-to-female transsexual who has legally changed her birth certificate to reflect her newly recognized status becomes male again should she venture into Tennessee, which is not obliged to honor the Illinois birth certificate. Such inequities pile onto one another in quick succession, leading Newlin to propose a model act to help create a "seamless system for recognition, amendment, and declaration of a person's legal sex."
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