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passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 12:11 AM Jun 2016

Which bathroom?

Just kidding about the bathroom. Oregon comes through again.

An Oregon judge ruled Friday that a transgender person can legally change their sex to "non-binary" rather than male or female in what legal experts believe is a first in the United States.

Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed 52-year-old Jamie Shupe's sex from "female" to non-binary.

"It's really exciting for the courts to actually recognize what we know to be true: gender is a spectrum," Haque said. "Some people don't identify as male or female."


"I was assigned male at birth due to biology," Shupe said. "I'm stuck with that for life. My gender identity is definitely feminine. My gender identity has never been male, but I feel like I have to own up to my male biology. Being non-binary allows me to do that. I'm a mixture of both. I consider myself as a third sex."


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/06/oregon_court_allows_person_to.html

I think this is great.
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Which bathroom? (Original Post) passiveporcupine Jun 2016 OP
Non-binary! I love it. SusanCalvin Jun 2016 #1
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