Fox News, by Landon Mion: A judge ruled that a Montana law which defined “sex” in state law, when referring to a person as only male or female, was unconstitutional, saying that the law’s description did not explicitly state its purpose.
District Court Judge Shane Vannatta struck down the 2023 law on Tuesday after a group of plaintiffs who identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex and other identities sued, arguing the law denies legal recognition and protection to people who identify as gender-nonconforming, according to The Associated Press.
Vannatta did not address the claim of a lack of legal recognition and protection, but did say that the bill’s title did not adequately explain whether the word “sex” referred to gender or sexual intercourse and that it did not indicate the words “male” and “female” would be defined in the body of the bill.
“The title does not give general notice of the character of the legislation in a way that guards against deceptive or misleading titles,” Vannatta wrote.
Montana’s law, S.B. 458, is similar to ones passed in Kansas and Tennessee.
The bill sought to revise laws to “provide a common definition for the word sex when referring to a human,” the text reads.
It defines “male” as “a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XY chromosomes and produces or would produce small, mobile gametes, or sperm, during his life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes.”
“Female” was defined in the bill as “a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XX chromosomes and produces or would produce relatively large, relatively immobile gametes, or eggs, during her life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes.”
The law was sponsored by Republican state Sen. Carl Glimm, who said the legislation was needed after a state judge ruled in 2022 that transgender people could change the gender markers on their birth certificates.
Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte is proud of the law he signed, which he said codified the long-recognized and commonsense definition of sex, the governor’s spokesman Sean Southard told The Associated Press.
“Words matter. And this administration is committed to ensuring words have meaning, unlike this judge, who apparently needs a dictionary to discern the difference between a noun and a verb,” Southard said.
Montana Attorney General’s Office spokeswoman Emilee Cantrell said her office would continue to defend the law “that reflects scientific reality.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana applauded the ruling.
“Today’s ruling is an important vindication of the safeguards that the Montana Constitution places on legislative enactments,” ACLU of Montana legal director Alex Rate said.
The bill was passed in 2023 during a legislative session when a ban on gender transition treatment for minors was also approved and when transgender Democrat state Rep. Zooey Zephyr was expelled from the House floor after a protest against Republican lawmakers who had silenced the Democrat.
Prophetic Link:
“When France rejected the gift of heaven, she sowed the seeds of anarchy and ruin; and the inevitable outworking of cause and effect resulted in the Revolution and the Reign of Terror.” Great Controversy, page 230.3.
Comments
William Stroud
Saturday July 6th, 2024 at 12:00 AMThere is a law this “judge” has absolutely zero jurisdiction over… the laws of nature instituted by God almighty. And among those laws is one that says the God created human beings as either male or female. That’s it. Two genders. Two sexes. That is all. The definitions originally in that bill were good ones. Where this “judge” gets these other categories is from the enemy of souls. God, in Eden , created two great institutions before the fall of Adam and Eve. Marriage between a man and a woman and the weekly Sabbath rest. After sin the first couple took these two institutions with them and they are still in effect today despite the many attempts to change times and laws. (Daniel7:25). God will not allow this to go on much further. Jesus is coming soon. We need to be ready and we need to share the 3 angels message with all who will listen.
William Stroud
Saturday July 13th, 2024 at 07:21 AM“District Court Judge Shane Vannatta struck down the 2023 law on Tuesday after a group of plaintiffs who identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex and other identities sued, arguing the law denies legal recognition and protection to people who identify as gender-nonconforming, according to The Associated Press”.
You see how deceptive the enemy is. The quote from the article says the law “…denies…protection to people…” who identify as something other than male or female. Id in no way denies them anything except validation for their, no good way to put it…delusion, that the are something other than male or female. In reality everyone is either male or female and as such are provided protection under this law, the same as every other man or woman. If I decide to call myself a tree, and I firmly believe I am a tree, in reality I am still a man. Call yourself what you will, you are still either male or female and as such are entitled to the protection provided by the law.