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"Genderless" Insanity Run-Amok? Oregon May Offer a Third Gender Option for Driver's Licenses

Lisa Bourne : May 11, 2017
LifeSiteNews.com

Oregon's prospective move follows the Canadian province of Ontario, which started issuing genderless licenses and health cards early this year. Also, in California lawmakers are considering a bill that would permit drivers to declare themselves as "nonbinary."

airlift(Salem, OR)—[LifeSiteNews] Oregon is poised to become the first U.S. state to permit its residents to legally declare themselves without gender, or "nonbinary," on their driver licenses and other state-issued ID cards. (Photo via LifeSiteNews.com)

A public hearing is set for Wednesday evening in Portland for input on a proposal before the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division (DMV) to allow residents to indicate "nonbinary" on state identification documents.

The term "nonbinary" presumes rejection of the two biological genders for which God created human beings.

If passed, Oregon residents could change their IDs and licenses beginning this summer to indicate an "X" under sex rather than just "F" or "M."

The Oregon DMV's policy has been to accept court orders as proof of sex change to alter a person's sex designation on driver licenses and permits, identification cards and DMV records.

However, last June an Oregon circuit court issued an order stating that Jamie Shupe could legally declare his sex as nonbinary. That left the DMV in the position of being unable to issue a card or create a record indicating a "nonbinary" gender...

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