{"id":19318,"date":"2026-01-10T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:08:56","slug":"ag-labrador-secures-court-order-ending-yearslong-block-on-idahos-birth-certificate-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/ag-labrador-secures-court-order-ending-yearslong-block-on-idahos-birth-certificate-law\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Labrador Secures Court Order Ending Yearslong Block on Idaho\u2019s Birth Certificate Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BOISE, ID \u2014<\/strong> Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador announced today that a federal court agreed to dissolve a 2018 injunction that blocked Idaho from enforcing state law requiring birth certificates to accurately reflect biological sex at birth. Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond E. Patricco granted Attorney General Labrador\u2019s motion, allowing Idaho\u2019s Department of Health and Welfare to enforce the policy for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Idaho\u2019s birth certificate policy was challenged in federal court, and a federal judge issued an injunction forcing Idaho to process applications to change biological sex markers based on gender identity. Even after the Idaho Legislature codified the policy into law in 2020 and amended it in 2024, federal courts prevented enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General Labrador filed a motion to dissolve the injunction in October 2025, citing two 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decisions. In Trump v. CASA<\/em>, the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts cannot issue universal injunctions affecting people beyond the parties in a lawsuit. In United States v. Skrmetti<\/em>, the Court ruled that laws like Idaho\u2019s do not discriminate based on transgender status because they apply equally to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor years, Idaho was blocked from enforcing common-sense policy and law requiring birth certificates to reflect biological sex recorded at birth,\u201d said Attorney General Labrador.\u201cBirth certificates aren\u2019t symbolic documents that are subject to how an individual may feel, they\u2019re legal records used in medicine, public health research, and identification. Idaho can now enforce our law protecting accurate vital records, while treating all Idahoans equally under the same amendment process.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idaho\u2019s law requires amendments to material facts recorded at birth to follow specific procedures. If requested within one year, individuals must provide a notarized affidavit declaring the information was incorrectly recorded. After one year, corrections require a court proceeding demonstrating fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact. This process applies equally to all Idahoans seeking to amend any biological fact on their birth certificate. The parties filed a joint stipulation agreeing to dissolve the injunction, which Judge Patricco ordered on January 8, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read our memo in support of the motion to dissolve here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the federal court\u2019s order here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOISE, ID \u2014 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador announced today that a federal court agreed to dissolve a 2018 injunction that blocked Idaho from enforcing state law requiring birth certificates to accurately reflect biological sex at birth. Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond E. Patricco granted Attorney General Labrador\u2019s motion, allowing Idaho\u2019s Department of Health and Welfare to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":17994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[1542],"class_list":["post-19318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-birth-certificate","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19319,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}