THE 13th Division of the Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld a lower court decision allowing a woman who was erroneously registered as a “male” to have her birth certificate corrected.

In a decision dated May 20, 2015, the CA affirmed the 2012 judgment and 2013 order of the Tuguegarao City (Cagayan) Regional Trial Court (RTC) dismissing the opposition of the Office of the Solicitor General to a petition of Teresita M. Lopez-Gorst to have her state document corrected.

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