LOUISVILE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita came out against changing birth certificates to accommodate personal gender identity preferences.
Rokita called the practice "falsifying records" in a news release Tuesday. He is now filing motions to intervene in cases where Indiana courts ordered the state's health department to change the designation of sex on birth certificates to reflect preferred gender identities.
"We're taking a stand not only for the rule of law but also for common sense," Rokita said in the news release. "Indiana law requires birth certificates to reflect the historical, immutable fact of a child's sex. One should have no more ability to change the listed sex on a birth certificate years after the fact than to change the newborn's listed length or weight."
In past cases, trial courts have already ordered the Indiana Department of Health to change the historical record of a newborn's sex.
Rokita said the state has a clear interest in protecting the integrity of its own processes of issuing birth certificates, despite having been uninvolved in previous court cases.
To supplement existing state laws, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun issued an executive order instructing state agencies to interpret and apply "sex" to mean "an individual human being’s immutable biological classification as either male or female" as determined at conception.
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