Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change...

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% : "How, it´s worth asking, could a government keep uniform records of any sort if the disparate views of its citizens about shifting norms in society controlled the government´s choices of language and of what information to collect?"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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