Oklahoma becomes first state to ban nonbinary identification on birth certificates

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Oklahoma residents will no longer be permitted to identify as nonbinary on their birth certificates.

Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill banning nonbinary identification on the government-issued documents Tuesday, just months after he issued an order to the state’s health department to stop issuing birth certificates with a nonbinary option, making his state the first in the nation to ban the gender marker option in explicit terms.

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