Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, Attorney General Todd Rokita and the Indiana Department of Health are fighting against court orders granting the changes.
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U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman in Maryland issued the injunction until a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrant families and advocacy groups is resolved.
For transgender Hoosiers who won court approval to change their birth certificates and other records, those orders may not be final.
The proposed rule would prevent transgender Hoosiers from changing the gender marker on their driver’s licenses to match their gender identity.
The court said it rejected the ACLU’s request because it is unlikely to prevail on arguments that Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and the state’s vital records director violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of two transgender Hoosiers.
The Supreme Court is declining to hear a case that would have let the justices decide whether a single use of the N-word in the workplace can create a hostile work environment.
Two Indiana trial courts must reconsider parents’ requests to change their children’s birth certificate gender markers, a majority of the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday, finding parents have statutory authority to request the changes for their minor transgender children. A dissenting judge, however, opined that Wednesday’s decision was a judicial overreach into legislative powers.
A bill in the Legislature could reignite Indiana’s battle over birth certificates and possibly upend federal court rulings that allow married lesbian couples to have both their names listed as their children’s parents. Some attorneys, however, see numerous unintended consequences if the bill passes.