Arizona Wins Delay of Order Changing Birth Certificate Policy

Arizona doesn’t have to meet an April 30 deadline for dropping the word “operation” from a law requiring transgender people to verify they’ve undergone gender-affirming surgery in order to modify the sex marker on their birth certificates, a federal appeals court said.

The state made a strong showing that it’s likely to win on the merits and will be irreparably harmed if required to amend the law before the appeals court’s decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unsigned order Tuesday. It also met the burden of showing that waiting won’t injure other parties ...