State records are 'not a canvas on which a person can paint one’s expression and preferences,' Attorney General Kris Kobach said, adding that the Democrat governor must execute the law after her veto of the Women's Bill of Rights was overridden earlier this year.
The move to change birth certificates follows Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's order to city councils to stop non-parents from adopting their same-sex partners’ children.
The Spanish Council of Ministers this month also approved a 'trans bill' that would allow people aged 16 and older to change their gender on government documents without witnesses.
'When a person is born, you record where they’re born, you record their weight, you record their sex,' state Sen. Carl Glimm responded, 'and that’s important information to document.'