Posted on 06/26/2023 2:02:10 PM PDT by Morgana
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of transgender plaintiffs asking the state of Tennessee to allow them to change the sex on their birth certificates.
The plaintiffs were looking to overturn a 1977 law that generally does not allow people to alter the sex designation on their birth certificates.
They argue that the law unconstitutionally discriminates against transgender people and that the sex designation on their birth certificates is wrong because it does not accurately correspond with their gender identities.
The lawsuit also claims that the law is harmful because transgender people showing their birth certificates for identification could be subject to possible harassment or violence over the mismatch between the documents and their gender identities.
U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson wrote Thursday in his decision to dismiss the lawsuit that there are varying definitions of the word "sex," but that the term "has a very narrow and specific meaning" when it comes to birth certificates. The judge said that, in this context, the term means "external genitalia at the time of birth."
Richardson said the sex designation does not later become inaccurate "when it is eventually understood to diverge from the transgender person's gender identity."
The plaintiffs insisted that "sex" should be defined as a person's gender identity.
Lambda Legal, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs, criticized the judge's ruling in a statement and said the decision comes as Tennessee Republicans target transgender rights.
GOP state lawmakers are working to ban sex-reassignment surgery for minors, protect teachers who choose not to use transgender students' preferred pronouns from lawsuits, define "male" and "female" to prevent changes to driver's licenses and birth certificates and prohibit private schools from allowing students to compete on sports teams that do not correspond with their biological sex.
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“Transgendered” folx sometimes change how they identify as often as they change their undies (boxers, frillies or furries today? 🤔). I guess the case could be made that they’re “creating jobs” for the gubmin twerkers by creating paperwork that “needs to be filed”.
Sick in the head individuals, all.
Thank you Judge Richardson for telling the truth!
I’ve reached the age where I often identify as a patient. Every doctor’s office I’ve been in has a form where I have the choice of being Male or Female. No exceptions. No “other.” I have to wonder why these medical professionals think there’s only two options. It makes no sense. Can anyone explain this?
😆 Now do Target!
Not XX or XY chromosomes?
Excuse me judge but when I committed the bank robbery I was a man and now I identify as a woman. So you must let me go…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“They’ll find an Osama Obama appointee to rectify this.”
Who knows the Supremes may ultimately get the case given Chief Justice Roberts, appointed by George W. Bush, a chance to weigh in. Two Trump appointees, Kavanaugh and Amy Comey Barrett could go either way.
LOL!
Its the time spent addressing this crap-that’s the real problem.
Yes the time is a problem
But more important is the way it is used to attack freedom of thought and speech.
It is also being used to attack employers who do not wish to employ the mentally ill in sensitive positions.
The protected class status of the transgenders is very disruptive to the work place.
I speak from personal experience
That's correct. End of story.
By now most sensible folks realize what this “gender choice/change” is all about. It is about hopefully gaining some advantageous choices in life after they are born & sex/gender has already been established. It’s like having some real or imagined disadvantages & looking for a quick way out of it.
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