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Eugene

(66,217 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 06:03 PM Sep 2022

Montana defies order on transgender birth certificates

Source: Associated Press

Montana defies order on transgender birth certificates

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON
September 15, 2022

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Just hours after a Montana judge blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate, the state on Thursday said it would defy the order.

District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state during a hearing in Billings for circumventing his April order that temporarily blocked a 2021 Montana law that made it harder to change birth certificates.

Moses said there was no question that state officials violated his earlier order by creating the new rule. Moses said his order reinstates a 2017 Department of Public Health and Human Services rule that allowed people to update the gender on their birth certificate by filing an affidavit with the department.

However, the state said it would disregard the ruling.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/health-gay-rights-montana-billings-0a6f84a837a8987e532ac3a7aeb50e55



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Montana defies order on transgender birth certificates (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
ho-hum, constitutional conservatives blahblahblah tishaLA Sep 2022 #1
Total Lawlessness yankee87 Sep 2022 #2
So counties, towns, and individuals can disregard state laws? keithbvadu2 Sep 2022 #3

yankee87

(2,636 posts)
2. Total Lawlessness
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 07:49 PM
Sep 2022

I can't believe how much hate for our transgender citizens from the Qpublican party. Start by not sending any federal aid to that POS state. I hate the GQP with my very soul.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
3. So counties, towns, and individuals can disregard state laws?
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 07:49 PM
Sep 2022

So counties, towns, and individuals can disregard state laws?

It's a precedent.

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