Does a judge have the broad authority to grant a gender marker change petition to a transgender person even without specific direction in Utah law?
That’s the issue at the heart of Monday’s argument before the Utah Supreme Court, which has been asked to overturn a pair of 2016 rulings by a 2nd District judge that left Angie Rice and Sean Childers-Gray in a mismatched legal limbo.
Both have documents — driver licenses and insurance cards, for example — that bear the new names they chose to reflect their gender identities, but the papers still list the sex designations that were assigned to them at birth.