State implemented a new rule in April, has received 28 apps since the change.
If you’re born XX or XY, you are going to die XX or XY. You cannot change that with a piece of paper.
BOISE – Idaho has received nearly 30 applications from people requesting changes to their birth certificates to properly reflect their identities since a federal judge ruled rejecting applications was illegal.
The Department of Health and Welfare said 28 applications have been submitted since the state implemented the new rule in April.
The judge’s decision stated reissued birth certificates can’t include a record of the gender having been changed.
Most states had already allowed such changes. Idaho was one of four – along with Kansas, Ohio and Tennessee – that prohibited transgender people from changing their birth certificate to reflect their gender identity.
The department also received a handful of public comments on the new rule change, with the majority urging the state not to allow birth certificate amendments.
“This new law would erase any record that sex on a birth certificate has been amended and compromises the accuracy of state records,” wrote Brittany Jones, interim policy director for the Family Policy Alliance of Idaho. “It allows the new birth certificate to supersede and become an original birth certificate.”