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Montana to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Montana’s health officials said Monday their department will follow a judge’s ruling that will allow transgender people to change the gender markers on their birth certificates.
- Judge Michael Moses said health officials made “calculated violations” of his order.
- The order states that officials have to temporarily stop enforcing a law blocking trans people from updating their gender on their birth certificates unless they had undergone surgery.
Montana officials announced that its health department will follow a judge’s ruling and temporarily allow trans people to update their gender markers on their birth certificates.
Monday’s statement comes just days after state officials announced they would disregard District Court Judge Michael Moses’ order.
On Monday, the judge said that state health officials made “calculated violations” of an order he issued late last week when announcing their decision to defy it.
Moses on Thursday clarified a preliminary injunction he had issued in April. The ruling states that the state could not prevent transgender people from updating their birth certificates while Senate Bill 280 was challenged in court. State officials, however, said they would not comply with the order.
Moses said Monday that he would consider motions for contempt after several violations of his April order.
State officials engaged “in needless legal gymnastics to attempt to rationalize their actions and their calculated violations of the order,” wrote Moses, who called Montana’s interpretation of his earlier order “demonstrably ridiculous.”
Charlie Brereton, director of the state’s Department of Public Health and Human Services, said last week that “the department thoroughly evaluated the judge’s vague April 2022 decision and crafted our final rule to be consistent with the decision. It’s unfortunate that the judge’s ruling today does not square with his vague April decision.”
In a statement issued by the Montana DPHHS, they said that the agency would follow the judge’s order just hours after the judge issued his order Monday,
“The Department has received the court’s order clarifying the preliminary injunction and despite disagreeing with it, intends to comply with its terms,” department spokesperson Jon Ebelt said in a statement.
“It’s unfortunate that it has taken two very clear court orders and many months to comply with the law,” Alex Rate, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Montana, told The Associated Press.
“But from the perspective of transgender Montanans who are seeking to obtain accurate identity documents, today’s announcement is certainly progress,” Rate added.
The ACLU and its Montana affiliate represent two transgender individuals who want to change the gender marker on their Montana birth certificates.
Source: Yahoo! News
CPO Bill
September 21, 2022 at 7:06 pm
He must be one of those gender queers! No sex, but a head full of adam schitt!
ted
September 21, 2022 at 7:15 pm
you can change your sex on birth certificate but you will have to answer for your decision before GOD on judgement day simple truth GOD does not make mistakes becareful what you ask for you reap what you sew
Harold Scott
September 21, 2022 at 7:47 pm
Let’s get something straight!!! There is no such thing as “transgender!” George Carlin, great 20th Century Philosopher : “Smug, greedy, well fed White People have INVENTED A LANGUAGE [trans, gay, xeno blah blah blah] to conceal their sins! It’s as simple as that!! ” There definitely are, “Gender CONFUSED!” BUT, DNA does not lie!!!
Abraham I Dumanis
September 21, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Is it because someone om the top is perverted?
Definitely the “the fish starts decaying from the head”.
Lionel Camus
September 21, 2022 at 8:41 pm
A man his a man you cannot change that.pll are nuts what his this world coming too
Colby Goodson
September 22, 2022 at 7:11 am
I can change my birth certificate to say I am black. Guess what? I am still white.
Izzy
September 22, 2022 at 7:37 am
This is so damn stupid. It is amazing what the govt. has become.
Fred
September 22, 2022 at 10:46 am
Even the original Saturday Night Live (that was actually funny) couldn’t make this up. But seriously, I decided today I’m tired of being older, so I’m “correcting” my birth certificate as it has the wrong birth date! It makes me 15 years older than I identify as… No wait, 20 years. No wait, 25 years. Yeah. 25 years.
Daniel Beck
September 22, 2022 at 11:19 am
Why continue to comply with and laws? These people are insane.
Leslie
September 22, 2022 at 9:57 pm
Insanity rules these people. All these young people, focusing on stupidity instead of getting a job and becoming a productive human being, part of society. Instead they use society & taxpayers money to pay for their insane “gender reassignment”, they will never be satisfied no mater who they change into!