Hate Legislation Again

This time it is coming out from Utah where they want to ban birth certificates.

At one time even the Republicans saw the advantage in allowing us to change our birth certificates, back in the sixties the Republicans knew that for us to get a job we needed a birth certificate to reflect our true gender. In the mid-sixties  ten states including Republican states changed their laws to allow birth certificates to be change to permit us to be productive members of society. But now…

Bill bars transgender Utahns from legally changing their sex on birth certificates
Utah Policy
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
22 January 2019

A bill for the 2019 Legislature has been filed that would stop transgender Utahns from legally changing their birth sex.

“It is an egregious step backward for transgender Utahns,” said Troy Williams head of Equality Utah, an LGBTQ civil rights group. “It is transgender-phobic legislation.”

Not so, says Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, sponsor of HB153. You can read HB153 here.

Nelson’s bill defines gender at birth and then deletes language that currently allows a judge to grant an order allowing a transgender person later in life to change his or her birth gender on official county birth records.

Nelson says he has no ulterior motives in his bill – it is just a clear attempt to stop changes to a “vital state record” – the birth certificate – when none should be made.

“It is a fiction to change the sex designation on a birth certificate – a vital record -- based on fluctuating gender,” he said.

Okay what is the purpose of a birth certificate? First is to provide record of a parentage, and second to provide a record of citizenship. It is not a historic record!

Now do you think that this has something to do with it?

Nelson is a partner in the law firm of Kirton McKonkie, the LDS Church’s official law firm.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is officially against same-sex marriage and teaches that a person is born their natural sex at birth as part of a divine plan for that individual.

The church also teaches that members should do genealogical research of ancestors and others to have a baptism for the dead – and changing official county birth records’ gender could interfere in future such research.

Nelson says his employment and personal religion have nothing whatsoever to do with HB153, nor the reason he is sponsoring it.

If you believe that, I have… well you know the saying.

This is just another blatant case of the Republican to attack all things trans or lesbian or gay. They just want to use their hate for political gains