State officials in Delaware are changing regulations involving changing of birth certificates.

Officials are deleting current language that says a birth certificate can be amended upon receipt of a court order indicating that the sex of a person born in Delaware has been changed by surgical procedure.

The replacement regulations being proposed will require an affidavit from the applicant (or parent or guardian in the case of a minor) requesting a new birth certificate with a different sex marker from that on the original certificate. Also required will be an affidavit from a medical or mental health professional attesting to the fact that the applicant has undergone surgical, hormonal, psychological or other treatment for gender transition...or that the applicant has an intersex condition...and that the service provider believes it is in the best interest of the patient to have the sex marker on the original birth certificate changed.

One presumes that no change to the previous procedure of marking the birth certificate as amended is being considered.