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transgender@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one's sex on a birth certificate

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Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one's sex on a birth certificate

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transgender@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates

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The US is extremely weird, because of a phobia of the government tracking them. So there is no national ID like most modern countries…

So you end up with these work arounds like using the birth certificate to identify yourself. It’s a really shit system.

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