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HELENA, Montana (LifeSiteNews) – Montana has eliminated the option to change the sex listed on a birth certificate to align with a so-called “gender identity” and has affirmed that no medical procedure “changes a person’s sex.”
In an emergency order issued Monday, the Montana health department declared that it will now only record biological sex, not “gender,” on birth certificates.
“Sex is different from gender and is an immutable genetic fact, which is not changeable, even by surgery,” reads the order, signed by health department director Adam Meier, an appointee of Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte.
“Accordingly, this emergency rule does not authorize the amendment of the sex identified/cited on a birth certificate based on gender transition, gender identity, or change of gender,” it continues.
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The new rule came after a state judge last month blocked a law
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