Oklahoma is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to validate the state’s policy of requiring that birth certificates reflect a person’s biological sex at birth, as opposed to gender identity.
The high court docketed the petition in Stitt v. Fowler on Jan. 28, meaning it has been accepted for review.
The petitioner is Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R). The respondents are Rowan Fowler, Allister Hall, and Carter Ray, who are described in court papers as “transgender people without amended Oklahoma birth certificates … [whose] sex listed on their birth certificates does not reflect their gender identities.”
Beginning in “at least 2007,” the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) allowed people identifying as transgender to get amended state birth certificates showing their sex as their preferred gender identity, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit’s June 18, 2024, ruling….