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Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Gender Markers Can Never Be Changed, Even For Cis People With Clerical Errors
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TRAHR quokk.au TRAHR@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-08-17
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Of course, it wasn’t always that way. In 2007, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (ODH), then under the state’s last Democratic governor, Brad Henry, started allowing trans people to update their birth certificates if they were able to obtain a court order confirming their identities. Even as the state’s Supreme Court acknowledged last week, the policy “was largely non-adversarial and persisted with little notoriety,” and as per Transitics’ prior research, it brought Oklahoma in line with the other 44 states that allowed these changes. As early as 2018, the ODH included instructions for legal gender changes on its website, where it stressed that it “does not require a physician’s statement.” Although the website was redesigned after the current governor, Kevin Stitt, took office in 2019, those instructions remained on the page well past that point.

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TheGoldenV lemmy.world TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-23
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Gad damnit. Now I’m stuck with the typo!

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omgboom lemmy.world omgboom@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-09
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Kevin Stitt is a huge piece of shit even amongst all of the other pieces of shit

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FaeriesWearBoots sopuli.xyz FaeriesWearBoots@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-09
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The dumbest timeline

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Amuro_eat lemmy.blahaj.zone Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-20
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I moved to the shithole that is Missouri from Oklahoma and it’s still just levels better than living in OK. What a fucking mess that’s going to create. How about they do something about grda pumping out cancer to their citizens

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Rentlar lemmy.ca Rentlar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-03-14
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Assigned Misspelled At Birth

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Akuchimoya startrek.website Akuchimoya@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-08-22
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Assigned Misspelled At Birth

I have an incorrect birth certificate and a later-issued corrected birth certificate. By their logic, they want my biological sex and assigned gender to be opposite of each other, I guess? 🤷

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driftwood lemmy.zip driftwood@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-29
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I have an incorrect birth certificate and a later-issued corrected birth certificate. By their logic, they want my biological sex and assigned gender to be opposite of each other, I guess? 🤷

Yes. They want to be able to question the authenticity of your documents… for voting, licensing, healthcare, etc. The more people they can prevent from participating in society - the easier it’ll be for them to cannibalize it.

They’re (in the US, Republicans) trying to do similar to married women - who have changed their names - to disenfranchise them, also.

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