Legal Question in Discrimination Law in Virginia

I would not assume that you can't take the SC birth certificate to the Virginia DMV, along with proof of the gender change (such as medical records or soemthing like that).

You should try that without assuming that it won't work.

However, the real problem is probably in South Carolina. So you should probably ask your quesiton under South Carolina law for a SC lawyer.

I assume that it would be best to address this in SC because that is your State of birth and in the future every time you have to do anything with your birth certificate you will run into the same problem. So I am assuming that it makes sense to go back to the source and fix it once and for all.

SC can only send you what they have. It would appear that when the name change went through it did not include changing the listing of gender. Or else they did not process it properly to include this.

So I think you would need to file an amended name change petition to note the change of gender.

If SC won't issue an amended birth certificate, at least you could show people both the birth certificate and the corut papers together showing the end result.

However, you need to get the advice of a SC lawyer on how to do this.