The state, Moses wrote, engaged “in needless legal gymnastics to attempt to rationalize their actions and their calculated violations of the order.” He called the state’s interpretation of his earlier order “demonstrably ridiculous.”
“It’s unfortunate that it has taken two very clear court orders and many months to comply with the law,” said Alex Rate, an attorney with the ACLU of Montana. The ACLU represents the plaintiffs, two transgender people who want to change their birth certificates. In April, Moses temporarily blocked a law passed by the Republican-controlled 2021 Legislature that would require transgender residents to undergo a surgical procedure and obtain a court order before being able to change the sex on their birth certificate. He said the law was unconstitutionally vague because it did not specify what kind of surgery would be required.
“If defendants requires further clarification, they are welcome to request it from the court rather than engage in activities that constitute unlawful violations of the order,” Moses wrote.
That's so ridiculous. How are these documents supposed to mean anything if such a vital fact can be changed on a whim
The world continues it's toilet spiral down the drain..
The scary part is when something happens and people start taking the Law And Justice into their own hands.. hold on
“After months of defiance“ lol that makes more sense.
Oh no, what are the far right going to use now to justify stripping things like Medicare and ss?
It was concluded that you can determine gender, however I will grant 'sex', in a blood smear. TW: small sample size.
As a transagial, I miss the right to change the date. Penis is vagina.
How very sad that some people won’t follow their own science! Science can only recognize two genders- male and female. These are immutable genetic truths! Surgery and hormone “therapy” can not change one’s genetic or biological make up!
Biological sex discrimination is real, and replacing biological sex with self identified sex in anti-discrimination laws makes biological sex discrimination easier.
What's next? Might we change the date? The location on our birth certificates? Our parents? One can no more change one's sex than one's birthday or birthplace or parents. It is foolish to allow such legal lies.
Can I change the date in my birth certificate, I feel like I am 21 and not 32.
It still won't make you a woman
This is absolutely absurd. Human beings cannot change sex. A birth certificate accurately records sex, so this ia falsifying a government document. Our sex marker is in all 37.2 trillion of our cells, down to our fingernails and hair follicles.
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Legally enforce our delusions
Nah this is going to far.
They will ALLOW... bullshit, you HAVE TO DO IT !
Adam’s Apple Sally
Wait. There's a court requiring a state falsify a legal document after the fact? The court is required that other deny reality so that someone else can live out a fantasy? Ugh ...
Get ready for sh't like 'Crayon' or 'Bubblegum.'🙄
KayTweetTweet Probably due to a huge lawsuit!
Montana has lost their minds. Judges do not make laws, legislators do! The judge is making law. Do a DNA test, results based on science there is the answer! Done!
Back to work now everyone, assuming you all have some real public issues- not culture war
I have nothing nice to say. We live in a great time period of mankind! 🙃🥴
Pandering BS. The number of chromosomes doesn't change.
Madness. This issue is the easiest test of all time and we are failing it hard in America. Vote Republican.
Self righteous Republicans in people's pants and panties again? Pervert get a life.
Why can't people just mind their own damn business? Who gives a f if someone you've never met..know nothing about..does something to their birth certificate..Really?
Maybe birth certificates should be left blank until babies are old enough to fill it in.
What’s the point of a birth certificate then
Isn't the sex, not gender listed?
Doesn't effect anyone really but...........the entire follow the science thing. But, I had to get a shot because of the science or get fired.
Right wingers are *very* upset about this thing that has zero impact on their own lives.
Why is this such a big deal? In the scheme of what's happening in this country today, don't we have bigger issues to deal with?
Can I identify a dog so I don't have to pay taxes?
Got love these comments upset about something that doesn’t impact their lives in the least
THIS 👏 IS 👏 Leadership 👏
District Judge Michael Moses said he would promptly consider motions for contempt based on continued violations of his April order, which he clarified in a verbal order at a hearing on Thursday. Just hours after that hearing, the Republican-run state said it would defy the order.
“The health department passed a rule saying no one could change the sex on their birth certificate unless there was a clerical error.” - now the question is how many people are trying to change their birth certificate in Montana?
And allow boys in the same bathroom as your daughter, horrible
balkanize now
Does the US birth certificate refer to gender or sex? The latter should not be able to changed regardless of what gender a person identifies as - you cannot change your sex.
Am I reading this accurately? They want to change the sex on the birth certificate? Not gender? Are they at all differentiated in the document?
And now we turn to the comments section where countless folks are under the impression that the world gives a damn about their hatred and self-declared exceptionalism.
Terrify...but I can't help but wonder why anyone would have a problem with this...when it doesn't take anything away from anyone else...
Liberal mindset is disturbing.
If you can change your gender, can you change your date of birth?
Appeal the ruling.
Normalising mental illness. What could go wrong?
ReTrumplicans, always irrationally angry about things that don't affect them
A woman will NEVER feel safe in a washroom again.
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