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Federal judge says Idaho cannot ban transgender people from amending their birth certificates

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Photo: Idaho State Capitol. Credit: Kevin Rank/flickr. A federal judge warned the state of Idaho that the permanent injunction she previously issued two years ago to block the state from preventing transgender people from correcting the gender markers on their birth certificates to match their gender identity continues to remain in effect.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale noted in her opinion that her 2018 ruling overturning the state’s categorical ban on amending birth certificates remains in effect, despite a new law, slated to go into effect on July 1, that prohibits any gender-marker changes to birth certificates for any reason other than clerical error, and only for up to a period after the certificate has been issued. “…[T]he plain

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