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Utah residents can change the sex designation on their birth certificates, the state s Supreme Court said Thursday in a ruling hailed as a victory for transgender rights.
In a 4-1 decision, the court found that Utahns have “a common-law right to change facets of their personal legal status, including their sex designation” and required a lower court to grant the petitions of two transgender plaintiffs seeking to make such changes.
The state Supreme Court took up the case after Sean Childers-Gray, who was born female but identifies as male, and Angie Rice, who was born male but identifies as female, petitioned a district court to change the legal sex markers on their birth certificates because they do not reflect their gender identities.