Remember when the
State Department decided it would be good to remove "father" and "mother" designations from passport applications and to replace them with "Parent 1" and "Parent 2"? Don't look now, but in Oregon (where
a 15 year-old can get a taxpayer-funded sex change operation), the government will allow you to call yourself "non-binary" if you are transgender.
From the
Law Works LLC website:
On June 10, 2016, a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge for the State of Oregon granted Jamie Shupe’s petition to change the legal sex/gender marker from Female to Nonbinary. Lake Perriguey, of Law Works LLC, represented Jamie in what is understood to be the first order from a United States state court to recognize “non-binary” as a legal gender/sex identifier as part of a legal sex change procedure.
Oregon law does not specifically limit gender choices to Male or Female. Instead, the law allows a judge to order a legal change of sex and enter a judgment indicating the change of sex of a person if the court determines that the individual has undergone surgical, hormonal or other treatment appropriate for that individual for the purpose of gender transition and that sexual reassignment has been completed. See Oregon Revised Statute 33.460.
