Idaho got closer to passing one of the most anti-transgender laws in the country

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Republicans in Idaho’s house are moving forward with a law that would ban transgender people from correcting the gender listed on their birth certificates.

If passed, Idaho would join Tennessee as the only states that have laws that explicitly ban transgender people from updating their legal documents.

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In 2018, Idaho’s ban on transgender people correcting their birth certificates was overturned by a federal court. But Idaho Rep. Julianne Young (R) has proposed a bill that would only allow people to ask a court to change a birth certificate “on the basis of fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact, with the burden of proof upon the party challenging the acknowledgment.”

The bill passed the House State Affairs Committee on a party-line vote and is now going to the state house floor. There are 56 Republicans and 14 Democrats in the state house, and the state senate has 25 Republicans and seven Democrats. The state’s governor is a Republican as well.

Young said that a birth certificate is a “historical document” that records “the natural function of the other biological sex,” even though birth certificates are generally viewed by courts and state governments as legal documents with various functions.

Before the 2018 ruling, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare categorically denied all attempts to correct gender markers on birth certificates.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale ruled at the time that the policy violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause because….

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