Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one's sex on a birth certificate - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "While other states have taken different approaches, for decades Tennessee has consistently recognized that a birth certificate records a biological fact of a child being male or female and has never addressed gender identity," he said.
56% : "There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex," 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote for the majority in the decision upholding a 2023 district court ruling.
54% : "The plaintiffs -- four transgender women born in Tennessee -- argued in court filings that sex is properly determined not by external genitalia but by gender identity, which they define in their brief as "a person's core internal sense of their own gender."

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