MISSOULA, Montana, July 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews)— Two “transgender” people, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have filed a lawsuit challenging Montana’s new law restricting the ability of “trans” people to change their birth certificates in accordance with their chosen “gender identities.”
Under Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s Senate Bill 280, a “transgender” person must provide a court order with proof of genital surgery to the Department of Public Health and Human Services in order to change the birth sex on the birth certificate.
Amelia Marquez, a biological male, and “John Doe”, a biological female, claim that the surgery required by the new law is too challenging for some and wrongly requires disclosure of personal information.
According to the complaint, Marquez, 27, has identified and lived as a female for much of his adulthood and wishes to “correct” his Montana birth certificate to say that he was born female. Marquez has taken female hormones, but is not able to pay for and doesn’t wish to undergo genital surgery. He “lives in fear of having to present [his] birth certificate to someone who may respond negatively or even violently… Marquez is typically perceived as female, so anytime [he] is forced to present an identity document that…identifies [him] as male, [he] is forced to ‘out’ [himself] as transgender.”
The woman, 22, identifying as John Doe in the complaint “has expressed [her] gender in a traditionally male
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