Lambda Legal to Puerto Rico: Amendments to Civil Code Violate Court Order and the Constitution
March 05, 2020
March 05, 2020
NEW YORK, March 5 -- Lambda Legal issued the following news release on March 4:
Lambda Legal warned Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced that the proposed new Civil Code for the Commonwealth, which is now before the Puerto Rico Senate, is in clear contempt of a 2018 federal court order that declared unconstitutional the island's policy prohibiting transgender Puerto Ricans from correcting their birth certificates and could expose the Puerto Rican government to sanctions and pen . . .
Lambda Legal warned Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced that the proposed new Civil Code for the Commonwealth, which is now before the Puerto Rico Senate, is in clear contempt of a 2018 federal court order that declared unconstitutional the island's policy prohibiting transgender Puerto Ricans from correcting their birth certificates and could expose the Puerto Rican government to sanctions and pen . . .