§ 103446 Birth Certificate Gender Correction

Health and Safety Code·California

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This law lets people fix a birth certificate if it shows the wrong gender because the hospital or registrar made a mistake.

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•The law creates a way to correct gender mistakes on birth certificates.
•It only applies to errors made by the birthing hospital or local registrar.
•The correction remedy has been available since January 1, 2001.

Example

A person finds out their birth certificate says they are male, but they are female, because the hospital wrote it down incorrectly.

Under this law, they can ask the state to change the gender on the certificate to the correct one.

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§ 103446 Birth Certificate Gender Correction

It is the intent of the Legislature that this article provide a remedy for the correction of birth certificates that contain gender errors made by the birthing hospital or local registrar when completing the original birth certificate. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 780, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2001.)

Last verified: January 11, 2026

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gender errors birthing hospital local registrar original birth certificate

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Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Health and Safety Code. Section 103446.

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