Transgender Tennesseans want birth certificate policy declared unconstitutional
Lead plaintiff Kayla Gore speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The fate of a decades-old Tennessee law that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth certificates is in the hands of a federal appeals court. (Travis Loller/AP Photo file)
The plaintiffs argue in court filings that sex is properly determined not by external genitalia but by gender identity, which they define in their brief as “a person’s core internal sense of their own gender.”