Birth to Total Information Awareness

Inland NW Report ^ | September 2019 | Vicky Davis

[Twotone]

On September 24, 2019, there was a public meeting being hosted by the Public Health division of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to receive comments on the issue of changing sex on Certificates of Live Birth – changing history as it were.

In April of 2017, a case was filed (1:17-cv-00170-CWD) in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho against the Idaho Department of Public Affairs, the Administrator of the Division of Public Health and the State Registrar and Chief of the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics asking for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief from the states’ refusal to change sex on the birth certificate. The Plaintiff in the case was a transgender who wanted his birth certificate to reflect that he was female at birth.

In the first paragraph of the plaintiff’s Background on the case, the attorney states the following referring to the State of Idaho:

The government has conceded in this litigation that it lacks even a rational basis for refusing to provide such birth certificates. On that basis alone, Plaintiffs are entitled to summary judgment.

[Twotone]

This article isn't so much about the issue of the birth certificate as it is about what a private company is doing accumulating data. Essentially the gov't has outsourced their desire for a TIA system due to political considerations. Long but interesting.

[subterfuge]

Pass.