Posted on 09/09/2022 3:38:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana health officials on Friday made permanent a rule that blocks transgender people from changing their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery.
The move by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration comes just days before a court will hear arguments over the legality of a similar rule that’s been in effect on an emergency basis since May. The ACLU of Montana has asked state Judge Michael Moses to strike down the emergency rule.
Moses in April had temporarily blocked a 2021 Montana law that made it difficult for transgender people to change their birth certificate.
The law said people had to have a “surgical procedure” before they could change the sex listed on their birth certificate. Gianforte’s administration then went further and blocked changes to birth certificates even after surgery.
Over the last several years, conservative legislators in numerous states have sought to limit the rights of transgender people.
Only Tennessee, Oklahoma and West Virginia have similar sweeping prohibitions against birth certificate changes, advocates for transgender rights say. Bans in Idaho and Ohio were struck down in 2020.
Transgender plaintiffs represented by the ACLU of Montana have said a birth certificate that doesn’t match their gender identity puts them at risk of embarrassment, discrimination, harassment or violence if they are asked to provide their birth certificate.
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Birth certificates are literally statements of fact. Not opinion, not a thought in ones head. Facts only.
Anyone, who believes in gender change versus birth reality, is the dangerous person Voltaire had in mind when he made the statement in my tagline.
Meant to say:
And any changes to assigned at birth gender is insanity.
Moochelle: “Geez you just snuck in when your mom paid that dude to make up a phony change from your Kenyan one. Looked almost real for the fakes back in the day.”
Barack: “You got that right. He’s gonna charge a huge fee for fakin’ them now. They look at the things like the counterfeit Benjamins me and my homeboys used to pass in the hood. Color this, 3D that, special threads. Makes the crime life hard today.”
Moochelle: Yes, a cryin’ shame for the young folk.
The term “actual gender” implies that there is some kind of “absolute truth”, which of course is ridiculous. If I have an apple in each hand and place them together, my truth says I’ll have 6 tomatoes and a chicken. And you must acknowledge that, because it’s “my truth”.
Even if transgenderism is a valid concept and boys really an become girls and vice versa, the birth certificate records condition at BIRTH. One cannot transform one’s birth post event. The only exception is of a condition found in one family line in South America wherein many born recognized as apparent girls become obviously boys at puberty. That is straight up mistaken identification and thus birth certificates can be legitimately changed.
Gonna raise you up a crop of dental floss?
Raising it up
Waxing it down
Yippee-Ty-O-Ty-Ay!
They should refuse to honor any and all licenses from every State that puts biologically false information on any license or certificate of live birth
What surgery or other medical procedure changes cellular chromosomes that compose an individual from XX to XY or XY to XX? Answer that and the debate may begin. External structure modifications is the extreme version of the medical category of tattooing.
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