Oklahoma Seeks Re-do in Birth Certification Sex Amendment Suit

A federal appeals court should revisit a case challenging the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s policy preventing transgender people from changing the sex marker on their birth certificates, the state says.

Oklahoma on Thursday asked the full US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reinstate a lower court’s dismissal of the suit, saying an appeals panel judged the law under too strict of a standard.

In reviving the suit, the partially divided panel effectively held that the policy violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, lawyers from the state Attorney General’s Office said.

“To reach this conclusion, the panel wrongly ...