The Montana Supreme Court struck a blow to biological reality by allowing Montanans who claim to be transgender amend birth certificates and change driver’s licenses to match their self-proclaimed “gender identity.”
The state’s high court ruled 5-2 on Tuesday to uphold a lower court’s preliminary injunction of a 2022 policy that mandates Montanans have birth certificates and IDs that match their biological sex. The court ruled that the policy likely goes against the state constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
“Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” the court claimed in its opinion, ultimately rejecting biological reality.
Two justices, Jim Rice and Cory J. Swanson, dissented, with Rice writing that the court is forcing the state to issue “falsified legal documents.”
“The Court rejects what the United States Supreme Court and other courts in the country have recognized: one’s gender identity choice does not constitute a protected class that establishes
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