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Montana adopts permanent block on birth certificate changes
The Associated Press ^ | September 9, 2022 | By MATTHEW BROWN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: culturewar; democrats; homosexualagenda; perverts; xyxx
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

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.


21 posted on 09/09/2022 4:40:28 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: Reddy

Meant to say:

And any changes to assigned at birth gender is insanity.


22 posted on 09/09/2022 4:47:48 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


23 posted on 09/09/2022 4:52:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
“Gender-confirmation surgery.” Otherwise more correctly known as “gender-denial surgery”.

Every time I hear the phrase "gender-affirming care", it reminds me that they mean "gender-denying care".

After all, the purpose of the whole theater is to deny the person's actual gender.
24 posted on 09/09/2022 6:04:03 PM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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To: Alvin Diogenes

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”.


25 posted on 09/09/2022 6:22:56 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


26 posted on 09/09/2022 7:27:19 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: Disambiguator
> I may be moving to Montana soon...

Gonna raise you up a crop of dental floss?

27 posted on 09/09/2022 7:50:19 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Raising it up
Waxing it down


28 posted on 09/09/2022 8:12:15 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

Yippee-Ty-O-Ty-Ay!


29 posted on 09/09/2022 8:27:17 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


30 posted on 09/09/2022 9:04:07 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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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.


31 posted on 09/10/2022 2:27:52 AM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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