State Must Face Revived Suit on Trans Birth Certificate Ban (1)

A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of an executive order issued by Oklahoma Gov. J. Kevin Stitt (R) that bars transgender people from amending their birth certificates to match their gender identity was partially reinstated by the Tenth Circuit Tuesday.

The ruling comes a day after a second federal trial court preliminarily blocked an Education Department rule that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools receiving federal funding, raising the tally of states that have blocked the rule to ten.

Efforts to target transgender rights have grown since the US Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. ...