A bill that would not allow changes to a person’s gender on a birth certificate got a lot of attention this week in the South Dakota legislature.
HB-1076 was defeated in a House committee, then smoked out and brought to the floor where it passed on a thirty-nine to thirty one vote.
Representative Erin Healy of Sioux Falls says it is an extensive process to amend a birth certificate…
Healy, a democrat, says the original gender is not erased on an amended birth certificate….
Healy says the continued focus on trans gender people gives the state a bad image…
The bill will next be heard in a Senate committee.
