Gender X option may be coming to Washington birth certificates

[TexasTowelie]

Washington natives soon might be able to change the gender designation on their birth certificates to one that is neither male nor female.

Call it gender X or the more clinical term: non-binary.

Currently, people born in Washington can request a new birth certificate indicating a gender different than the one recorded at their birth on the original certificates.

They can switch genders on their licenses but only between male and female. If the state Department of Health’s proposed rule changes go into effect, there will be another box to check beyond M or F.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article172749291.html

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Interesting.

As someone who (as I like to say) is a boring heterosexual, I'll confess that I don't understand a lot of the current gender stuff out there. I was born with a female body, am happily female, and so sometimes it's tricky for me to figure out what it must be like to feel trapped in the wrong body. It does help somewhat that over the years I've had various gay/lesbian friends and relatives, and so I get it that just because *I* am not outside the gender norms, does not mean that those outside them should be shunned or punished or anything other than accepted.