The court declared that Oklahoma law has never allowed changes to gender markers for any reason, expanding the state’s anti-trans restrictions to cis people in a humorous twist.

Of course, it wasn’t always that way. In 2007, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (ODH), then under the state’s last Democratic governor, Brad Henry, started allowing trans people to update their birth certificates if they were able to obtain a court order confirming their identities. Even as the state’s Supreme Court acknowledged last week, the policy “was largely non-adversarial and persisted with little notoriety,” and as per Transitics’ prior research, it brought Oklahoma in line with the other 44 states that allowed these changes. As early as 2018, the ODH included instructions for legal gender changes on its website, where it stressed that it “does not require a physician’s statement.” Although the website was redesigned after the current governor, Kevin Stitt, took office in 2019, those instructions remained on the page well past that point.

  • Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    14 days ago

    I moved to the shithole that is Missouri from Oklahoma and it’s still just levels better than living in OK. What a fucking mess that’s going to create. How about they do something about grda pumping out cancer to their citizens

    • Akuchimoya@startrek.website
      3·
      14 days ago

      I have an incorrect birth certificate and a later-issued corrected birth certificate. By their logic, they want my biological sex and assigned gender to be opposite of each other, I guess? 🤷

      • driftwood@lemmy.zip
        5·
        14 days ago

        Yes. They want to be able to question the authenticity of your documents… for voting, licensing, healthcare, etc. The more people they can prevent from participating in society - the easier it’ll be for them to cannibalize it.

        They’re (in the US, Republicans) trying to do similar to married women - who have changed their names - to disenfranchise them, also.