No 'fundamental right' to change sex on birth certificate, federal appeals court rules

Chrystal-J said:

I was filling out a form on-line. The choices were male, female and other. "Other"?? This world's gone crazy. I'm glad some people still have their senses.

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Tropical Wilds said:

Tell me about it. I filled out a form that actually listed non-white ethnicities as a choice. Back in my grandfathers day, that was unheard of. He’s probably rolling in his grave.

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Chrystal-J said:

People are born different races, they don't choose to become what they are.

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Tropical Wilds said:

It may shock you to hear that people are also born different genders.

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Michie said:

A Tennessee law that prevents trans-identified residents from changing the sex marker on their birth certificates to reflect their self-declared gender identity is not a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state of Tennessee in a 2-1 decision, ruling against plaintiffs Kayla Gore, L.G., K.N. and Jaime Combs. The four plaintiffs are men who identify as women who sought to change the sex on their birth certificates.

Writing for the majority opinion, Judge Jeffrey Sutton stated that "there is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex." The judge wrote that the Tennessee law treats both sexes equally, and the state recording sex instead of gender identity on birth certificates "does not withhold a constitutionally prescribed benefit."

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No 'fundamental right' to change sex on birth certificate, federal appeals court rules

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a Tennessee law that says trans-identifying people cannot change the sex marker on their birth certificates to reflect their self-declared gender identity

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Michie said:

A Tennessee law that prevents trans-identified residents from changing the sex marker on their birth certificates to reflect their self-declared gender identity is not a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state of Tennessee in a 2-1 decision, ruling against plaintiffs Kayla Gore, L.G., K.N. and Jaime Combs. The four plaintiffs are men who identify as women who sought to change the sex on their birth certificates.

Writing for the majority opinion, Judge Jeffrey Sutton stated that "there is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex." The judge wrote that the Tennessee law treats both sexes equally, and the state recording sex instead of gender identity on birth certificates "does not withhold a constitutionally prescribed benefit."

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No 'fundamental right' to change sex on birth certificate, federal appeals court rules

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a Tennessee law that says trans-identifying people cannot change the sex marker on their birth certificates to reflect their self-declared gender identity

www.christianpost.com

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Chrystal-J said:

Yes, men and women.

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Tropical Wilds said:

I remember one time my grandfather got big mad because a man who worked with my mother self-identified as white, but that man’s father was a light-skinned Jamaican man. He was incensed that somebody would dare claim he was white when one of his birth parents was black. He thought that ethnicity was on a binary of white and not white and anybody who wasn’t white claiming to be white was choosing to be deceptive. He just went by the little information he had, just what he saw, to decide what somebody else must identify as.

Crazy, huh?

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Chrystal-J said:

Your grandfather sounds like a racist.

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Chrystal-J said:

Your grandfather sounds like a racist.

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Tropical Wilds said:

I suspect some people’s grandchildren will go on to have similar revelations about their grandparents courtesy of the opinions and bias they carried back in the day.

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Laodicean60 said:

I tell my grandkids all the time that we were racist in the 70s but I told them we have gone a long way and my granddaughter is a product of racial healing.

I think the ones screaming racism are the racists. There are racists in all the colors not just white.

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Laodicean60 said:

I tell my grandkids all the time that we were racist in the 70s but I told them we have gone a long way and my granddaughter is a product of racial healing.

I think the ones screaming racism are the racists. There are racists in all the colors not just white.

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Tropical Wilds said:

Can’t wait to hear what our grandkids have to say.

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Laodicean60 said:

Hopefully, we'll be around to talk with our grandchildren when they are young adults. Mine are still in their teens.

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