July 13, 2024 6:08 PM

Court upholds Tennessee ban on changing sex in birth certificates

A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge to Tennessee's decades-old policy of not allowing people born in the state to amend their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity. A 2-1 panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the U.S. Constitution did not require the Republican-led state to change the biological sex listed on the birth certificates of four transgender women born in Tennessee. The state is among only a handful nationally...