Thu Sep 15, 2022 – 4:28 pm EDT
HELENA, Montana (LifeSiteNews) – The Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services (MPHHS) formally adopted a rule to ensure that only accurate biological sex, not “‘gender identity,” will be recorded on official birth records and cannot be changed.
Fox News reported that the rule, adopted September 9, removes the “gender” category from birth certificates and replaces it with “sex,” with “male” and “female” the only options, which can only be changed after the fact if an error was made when originally identifying or recording it.
The rule stems from an emergency order issued by MPHHS in May affirming that sex “is different from gender and is an immutable genetic fact, which is not changeable, even by surgery,” and therefore “the amendment of the sex identified/cited on a birth certificate based on gender transition, gender identity, or change of gender” was not authorized.
The order was a response to Judge Michael Moses’s April decision to block a state law that tightened the conditions for changing one’s birth-certificate sex by presenting proof of having undergone a “gender transition.” Moses argued the law was too vague; the state responded that his
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