Posted on 12/19/2023 2:35:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person’s biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue the law denies legal recognition and protections to people who are gender non-conforming.
The plaintiffs — a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual and a nurse practitioner — also moved for a summary judgement in Monday’s filing in state court in Missoula, asking for the law to be declared unconstitutional.
Republican lawmakers who supported the bill “seem to think they can simply legislate away the diversity of Montana’s residents,” Akilah Deernose, the executive director of the ACLU of Montana, said in a statement.
The sponsor of the legislation said it was needed to clarify from a legal standpoint that the words “sex” and “gender” aren’t interchangeable. That was in response to a ruling by a state judge in 2021 that overturned a law that said people had to have a surgical procedure before they could change their sex on their birth certificate. The judge ruled the law was vague because it didn’t define what type of surgery was needed and that transgender individuals should be able to change their gender on such documents. …
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Whatever happened to the difference between sex and gender?
I remember when people would say, this is where the country is headed— say, next homosexuals will want to get married while they were advocating for civil unions — and people would mock them by citing the slippery slope fallacy.
Bait and switch is all these people ever offer.
You mean I have been wrong all these years by typing in “MUCHO”!
You mean I have been wrong all these years by typing in “MUCHO”!
Not wrong. Just more evidence the choice is not binary. LOL
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