Oklahoma Defends Birth Certificate Policy on Top Court Remand

Oklahoma should be allowed to prohibit people from changing the sex markers on their birth certificates in light of a recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, the state told a federal appeals court.

Attorneys from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office defended the policy Monday in a supplemental brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which is reconsidering the case after the top court vacated an earlier decision that permitted plaintiffs to proceed on a claim that the birth certificate policy was unconstitutional. The plaintiffs’ argument that United States v. ...