In the face of poisonous gender ideology, states and governing organizations have worked overtime to protect their women and children from its harms. Concerned Women for America leaders have worked alongside dozens of legislatures to pass state bills barring men from using women’s bathrooms, participating in women’s sports, and more. But passing these protections is only the first step. To ensure these laws function as intended, states must also safeguard the integrity of the records used to enforce them.

A growing loophole threatens to undermine many of these hard-fought protections. While states have spent years defining "man" and "woman" in law, far fewer have protected the integrity of the documents used to determine who is legally recognized as either. Today, only about 10 states prohibit changing the sex designation on a birth certificate to reflect gender identity, while the remaining 40 allow their citizens to rewrite history.

Birth certificates are “vital records,” meaning official government documents issued by the states that are used to track a person’s legal identity. These records also include death certificates and marriage licenses. While these are regulated by the states, the federal government and countless public and private entities rely on birth certificates to verify a person’s identity and status (citizenship, clearance, various benefits, etc.) Above all, these have been widely accepted as historical documents; they are written as evidence of a significant event (birth) and its........

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