From left: Lambda Legal attorney Kara Ingelhart, plaintiffs Basil Argento and Stacie Ray, and Liam Gallagher of the ACLU of Ohio.
Photo courtesy of Lambda Legal/ACLUA federal court in Ohio has struck down the state’s policy barring transgender residents from correcting the gender on their birth certificates, leaving Tennessee as the only state with such a prohibition.“This policy resembles the sort of discrimination-based legislation struck down under the equal protection clause in Romer v.
Evans as nothing more than a policy ‘born of animosity toward the class of person affected’ that has ‘no rational relation to a legitimate government purpose,’” Judge Michael Watson of the U.S.