Parents of transgender kids speak out on gender-change rules

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Amie Schofield's 4-year-old daughter loves floral dresses and pigtails, but her mother worries she could be bullied or ostracized if school records reveal her birth certificate says she is a boy.

Schofield was among parents of transgender and intersex children in Utah who on Wednesday asked state lawmakers not to bar their kids from officially changing their gender on birth certificates.

"It's terrifying. It's the biggest worry, to be outed," she said. Her daughter is intersex, with anatomy that isn't solely either gender, she said. A doctor decided the baby was male, but Victory has always identified as a girl, her mother said.