Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed an executive order to stop the state’s health department from issuing nonbinary birth certificates.

The Hill reports:

The order mandates the Oklahoma State Department of Health to “cease amending birth certificates” in any way that is inconsistent with state law, and to “remove from its website any reference to amending birth certificates” that doesn’t align with state law.

Stitt further urged the Oklahoma state legislature to “immediately pass legislation that will clarify, to the extent necessary, that changes in sex or gender on a birth certificate, or a designation of non-binary is contrary to Oklahoma law.”

Stitt’s mandate referenced a settlement that the health department entered, under which the agency is required “to amend birth certificates in a manner not permitted under Oklahoma Law.”

According to local NBC affiliate KFOR, Kit Vivien Lorelied, who identifies as nonbinary, filed a federal lawsuit against the health department in August 2020 after the department denied their request have a name and sex change on their Oklahoma birth certificate in December 2019.

Ultimately, as part of the settlement with Lorelied, the health department issued a nonbinary birth certificate.