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SALT LAKE CITY A Utah Supreme Court decision Thursday in Salt Lake City makes clear that transgender people may amend birth certificates, driver s licenses and other state records to match the sex with which they identify.
The 4-1 ruling comes after more than three years in court and failed attempts by the Utah Legislature to both clarify a longstanding law regarding name and gender changes and to block transgender Utahns from amending their birth certificates. A person has a common-law right to change facets of their personal legal status, including their sex designation, Justice Deno Himonas wrote in the majority opinion. Justices John Pearce and Paige Petersen concurred. Chief Justice Matthew Durrant wrote a separate opinion that concurred in part and dissented in part with the majority. Justice Tom Lee was the lone dissenter.
Transgender Utahns can list their gender identity on state records, ruling affirms
In a 4-1 vote, the court overturns district court rulings that barred two people from changing their sex on state records.
(Paighten Harkins | The Salt Lake Tribune) Angie Rice speaks at a press conference May 6, 2021, after the Utah Supreme Court ruled in her favor that allowed her and another transgender Utahn to list the sex to which they identify on their driver’s licenses and other state records. | Updated: 7:45 p.m.
After more than three years of waiting, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled that two transgender Utahns can list the sex to which they identify on their driver’s licenses and other state records and that the judge who declined their initial request based his decision on “a legal mistake.”
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A Utah Supreme Court decision Thursday in Salt Lake City makes clear that transgender people may amend birth certificates, driver’s licenses and other state records to match the sex with which they identify.
The 4-1 ruling comes after more than three years in court and failed attempts by the Utah Legislature to both clarify a long-standing law regarding name and gender changes and to block transgender Utahns from amending their birth certificates.
“A person has a common-law right to change facets of their personal legal status, including their sex designation,” Justice Deno Himonas wrote in the majority opinion. Justices John Pearce and Paige Petersen concurred. Chief Justice Matthew Durrant wrote a separate opinion that concurred in part and dissented in part with the majority. Justice Tom Lee was the lone dissenter.