INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Court of Appeals has clarified the process transgender residents can use to legally change their names or birth certificates.
The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports the court ruled unanimously in reversing a Tippecanoe County judge’s decision that required notices about name or gender changes be published at least three times in a newspaper in the petitioner’s home county before a name-change could occur.
The court found that county judges can’t add conditions to requests for gender changes to birth certificates if a good faith test is satisfied.
A 2014 ruling by the court found that gender changes to birth certificates are allowed if a judge can determine it’s not being made for an unlawful purpose.
State law requires publication when changing names, with exemptions for some individuals.
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The courts do not have the time and resources required to do the investigations required to determine that a person that is wanting to change their birth certificate is doing so for a lawful reason. More idiocy. No reason to ever allow a person to change their birth certificate. Birth certificate is exactly that. A certificate of birth. If Johnny now identifies as Debbie good for him\her. Doesn’t change how he\she were born. What the hell is wrong with this country? Are all judges total morons?
Hopefully there is only a single ‘other’ choice…IT.