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ACLU of Montana challenges law defining the word ‘sex’ in state code as only male or female
Associated Press ^ | December 19, 2023 | Amy Beth Hanson

Posted on 12/19/2023 2:35:08 PM PST by Olog-hai

The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person’s biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue the law denies legal recognition and protections to people who are gender non-conforming.

The plaintiffs — a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual and a nurse practitioner — also moved for a summary judgement in Monday’s filing in state court in Missoula, asking for the law to be declared unconstitutional.

Republican lawmakers who supported the bill “seem to think they can simply legislate away the diversity of Montana’s residents,” Akilah Deernose, the executive director of the ACLU of Montana, said in a statement.

The sponsor of the legislation said it was needed to clarify from a legal standpoint that the words “sex” and “gender” aren’t interchangeable. That was in response to a ruling by a state judge in 2021 that overturned a law that said people had to have a surgical procedure before they could change their sex on their birth certificate. The judge ruled the law was vague because it didn’t define what type of surgery was needed and that transgender individuals should be able to change their gender on such documents. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aclu; homosexualagenda; montana; newspeak; orwellian; transgender; transspeak
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1 posted on 12/19/2023 2:35:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Whose “civil liberty” is violated? People who decide to make up a new definition and foist it onto unwilling citizens?
Sounds like the citizens are the victims.

I can make up a new term for Democrats: trash.
If others don’t like it, too bad, the ACLU will sue on my behalf.


2 posted on 12/19/2023 2:41:45 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Olog-hai

However, if you go to a woke, progressive hospital for a sex change you have only two options: male->female or female->male.


3 posted on 12/19/2023 2:42:05 PM PST by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Olog-hai
a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual

Sounds like a Disney movie character roster.

4 posted on 12/19/2023 2:42:09 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Dear Claire Wolfe: Is it still "too early"?)
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To: Olog-hai

I see their point. When I have to fill out a form that asks for sex, I generally type ‘YES’. :)


5 posted on 12/19/2023 2:42:30 PM PST by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: Olog-hai

Interesting list of plaintiffs

We have a lunatic, a lunatic, a lunatic, a person with a birth defect, and a panderer to lunatics.


6 posted on 12/19/2023 2:44:04 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Olog-hai

“””The plaintiffs — a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual”””


Photos of the plaintiffs are not needed, the words suffice.


7 posted on 12/19/2023 2:44:51 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: budj

“However, if you go to a woke, progressive hospital for a sex change you have only two options: male->female or female->male.”

Yes, you can’t go to a hospital and ask to be changed into non-binary, two-spirit, gay, lesbian, bi or +. Only male to female or vice versa. Proof that all this trans crap is insane.


8 posted on 12/19/2023 2:47:06 PM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: Olog-hai

In November, 2020, I thought we were down the rabbit hole.
With stuff like this, though, I realize that we still heading downward...ever deeper into the crazy world of dancing cards, life-sozed chess pieces, and a rabbit with a pocket watch...

Pray for our Nation.


9 posted on 12/19/2023 2:50:59 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Olog-hai

The plaintiffs argue the law denies legal recognition and protections to people who are gender non-conforming.

Correction: ....people who are freaks.


10 posted on 12/19/2023 2:53:26 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Olog-hai

Change the options on the form to “XX” or “XY” chromosomes.


11 posted on 12/19/2023 2:53:58 PM PST by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: Olog-hai

A transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual and a nurse practitioner walked into a bar...

Some jokes write themselves.


12 posted on 12/19/2023 2:55:06 PM PST by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: budj

Can’t you get the Swiss Army Knife surgery? You get one or two of everything. They aren’t as good as if you have a specialized, one-purpose device, but you are ready for anything.


13 posted on 12/19/2023 2:59:47 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Olog-hai

Of course...don’t they need to protect the rights of people who think they’re fungi?


14 posted on 12/19/2023 3:13:41 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: PubliusMM

(In November, 2020, I thought we were down the rabbit hole.)

The insanity is accelerating.

I’m VERY sorry to say.

It only convinces me further in regards to the lateness of the hour

🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚🕚


15 posted on 12/19/2023 3:34:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Olog-hai

There was a time when the ACLU represented Maoists *and* Nazis. Today,Nazis need not apply.


16 posted on 12/19/2023 3:47:31 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Olog-hai

Diversity as created in the last few years by the Liberal wackos.


17 posted on 12/19/2023 5:59:08 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

No difference between those two.


18 posted on 12/19/2023 6:54:55 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: PubliusMM

More like the snake hole, these days.


19 posted on 12/19/2023 6:55:36 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual

This reminds me of the remark that got James Watt in trouble:

"I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple."

20 posted on 12/19/2023 8:06:30 PM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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