The Montana state health department has announced its return to a near prohibition on individuals updating the sex on their birth certificates to match their gender identity.
"By forcing Montanans into two specific boxes, Montana’s conservative movement is pushing a law that is both foolish and discriminatory," ACLU of Montana said.
The Montana ACLU is suing the state, asking a Missoula County District Court judge, to rule that rewriting the state's laws to include only male and female is not unscientific, but illegal.
At least two nonbinary plaintiffs allege the state is asking them to commit fraud to comply with a law defining sex as binary — strictly male and female — in a new lawsuit filed by the Montana ACLU.