New York state judges on Thursday made clear that safety and privacy concerns outweigh public interest needs when it comes to protecting the identities of transgender people who have changed their names.
Protecting people from potential harm caused by a name-change court record “necessarily takes priority over the public’s ability to access that court record,” Associate Justice Sharon A.M. Aarons of the New York Supreme Court Third Appellate Department wrote in one of three opinions sealing the name-change records of transgender women.
The women asked Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice James E. Walsh to seal their records in ...
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