Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: A Big Win for Transgender Rights

This Fuck Yeah goes out to reader, activist, and attorney Benjamin Edwards, who served as co-counsel on a case in New York defending transgender rights.

Transcript after the jump.

Today I’d like to offer a big Friday Feministing Fuck Yeah to reader, activist, and attorney Benjamin Edwards, who served as co-counsel on a case in New York defending transgender rights. Thanks to the work of Edwards and others with the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Supreme Court reversed a Civil Court judge’s ruling that a “doctor’s note” had to be submitted for trans people to legally change their names.
A big Fuck Yeah also goes to Olin Yuri Winn-Ritzenberg, who initially petitioned the New York City Civil Court to legally change his name. Olin, I am proud to address you by your true name. Thank you for your bravery in taking this to court and changing the precedent so everyone can choose something as fundamental as what they are called in a world that purports to value individual identity so much. You are an inspiration.