Myles and Precious Brady-Davis are parents to a newborn baby girl. As a transmasculine individual and transgender woman respectively, the couple was concerned that their baby’s birth certificate would read that Myles, who carried the baby, was the baby’s mother. The couple petitioned the Illinois Department of Health to change the certificate, and it complied, according to the Chicago Sun Times. They are the first transgender couple to bring this concern to the attention of the state.

This is no trifling matter. The birth certificate is the first form of identification for any child. It is requested by schools for admittance, by medical personnel, by summer camps, by child care programs, is required for passports, and more. It’s a complicated situation, though: While the information on the certificate would only be biologically accurate if Myles was listed as the mother, since it was within Myles’s body that the baby was gestated, the couple risked being outed as transgender every time the certificate was shown.