ACLU asks court to order state to strike down emergency order, allow birth certificate changes

The American Civil Liberties Union in Montana is asking a district court judge to immediately order the state’s Department of Public Health and Human Services to revert to a 2017 law allowing citizens to change the sex designation on a birth certificate with just a form and rule that the efforts to create an “emergency rule” to stop that were “bogus.”

On April 21, Yellowstone County District Court Judge Michael Moses ordered a temporary injunction against a law passed by the 2021 Legislature that required a judge’s order and proof of surgery in order to change a birth certificate...