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Melissa Ratcliff: “Some specific things when you're trying to change your…”

Featuring: Melissa Ratcliff, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, 16th District

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Ratcliff says transgender parent task force formed to fight ignorance and bigotry

Published | Video Starts at 05:19

Are there any other things that you see your caucus doing in particular, maybe some legislation, Any specific issues related to the transgender community that you want to address? Yes, we will be putting forward cells in support of our transgender youth. There's some. Some specific things when you're trying to change your gender marker on the birth certificate that we'll be putting forward bills on to make it maybe an easier process. Name changes is a little difficult process to go through in Wisconsin as well. And so we're looking at those as well as other legislation that we can put forward just to show support for. (05:19–05:34)

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Asserts intention to introduce bills to simplify the process of changing gender markers on birth certificates.

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