HELENA – The Montana Department of Health issued an emergency rule Monday that eliminated any path for transgender Montanans to change the sex on their birth certificates. The rule, which took immediate effect, is another development in an ongoing legal battle between the state and two transgender Montanans, who filed a lawsuit over the constitutionality of a 2021 state law, which required transgender Montanans to get surgery and a court order to change the sex designation on their birth certificate.
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