A 2023 bill that defined sex as only male or female is unconstitutional because its subject wasn’t clear in its title as required by the Montana Constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday.
On the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the national right to abortion, Oregon advocates launched an effort to enshrine abortion rights and protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s constitution.
Two transgender women on Thursday filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Montana challenging a policy that bars them and other individuals from changing the gender designation on their birth certificate.
The high court’s action limits the lower court’s pause on the ban to the two teenagers suing the state, allowing Idaho to enforce prohibitions on gender-affirming care for the majority of transgender youth.
Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth.
A federal judge in Idaho temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a ban against treating transgender children for gender dysphoria on Tuesday after finding that the new law likely violates the U.S. Constitution.
At least two nonbinary plaintiffs allege the state is asking them to commit fraud to comply with a law defining sex as binary — strictly male and female — in a new lawsuit filed by the Montana ACLU.
A judge in Helena has dismissed state Rep. Zooey Zephyr’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the disciplinary actions legislative Republicans took against her during this year’s session.