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LGBTQ advocates celebrated after Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the City Council announced Friday that city employees will now have sex reassignment surgeries covered in their health care plans.
Utah Supreme Court hands S.J. Quinney College of Law alums major victory in transgender rights case
Newswise In a landmark case argued by two S.J. Quinney College of Law alums, the Utah Supreme Court ruled on May 6, 2021, that transgender Utahns have a legal right to change the name and gender marker on their birth certificates and other state records.
Chris Wharton, J.D. 09, and Kyler O’Brien, J.D. 16, represented Angie Rice and Sean Childers-Gray in the case In Re Gray and Rice (20170046) 2021 UT 13 along with attorneys Troy Booher, Beth Kennedy, and Alexandra Mareschal. Beth Jennings, adjunct assistant professor and assistant librarian in the college’s James E. Faust Law Library, provided substantial research support.
Utah Supreme Court upholds rights of trans persons to change name and sex on state records
In a 4-1 decision announced on Thursday, Utah’s Supreme Court expanded transgender rights in the state by siding with two trans petitioners seeking court orders to change their names and sex on birth certificates.
In supporting its ruling, the court emphasized the importance of its decision affirming the right of the appellants, Sean Childers-Gray and Angie Rice, to have the ability to change their names and legal sex designations.
“Language matters,” the court said.
“We address appellants by their appropriate pronouns,” one footnote reads. “The ease with which we could have misgendered them by using opposite-sex pronouns, despite their appearances and pronouncements, amplifies the importance of matching their government identification documents to their held-out identities.”