“There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex,” 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote for the majority in the decision upholding a 2023 district court ruling. The plaintiffs could not show that Tennessee’s policy was created out of animus against transgender people as it has been in place for more than half a century and “long predates medical diagnoses of gender dysphoria,” Sutton wrote.

First, trans rights are human rights.

Second, this is yet another demonstration of how the far right abuses the court system to legislate what they cannot pass through normal bicameral legislatures.

This will undoubtedly be appealed and pushed higher up the court system with the end goal of it reaching the Supreme Court. This is how red states (such as Tennessee) exert their will over blue states such as New York and California.