By Devan Cole, CNN Montana must pause its enforcement of a law requiring transgender residents to provide proof that they underwent a "surgical procedure"
Attorneys for the state and the ACLU got their first day in a Yellowstone County District court to argue the merits of Senate Bill 280, which changes how birth certificates in the state can be amended.
A judge in Yellowstone County District Court will hear a case that challenges the state's rights to disallow changing a birth certificate without completing gender-affirming surgery.
One of the Legislature’s most controversial bills will get a pair of hearings in Yellowstone County on Wednesday on the issue of whether residents can change the gender of their birth certificates without first undergoing some type of surgery.