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Male, female or X? Oregon adds third option to driver's licenses
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Posted on 06/15/2017 4:14:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Lifestyle | Thu Jun 15, 2017 | 6:44pm EDT

Male, female or X? Oregon adds third option to driver's licenses

By Terray Sylvester

Oregon became on Thursday the first U.S. state to allow residents to identify as other than male or female on state driver's licenses, a decision that transgender advocates called a victory.

Under a policy unanimously adopted by the Oregon Transportation Commission, residents can choose to have an "X," for non-specified, displayed on their drivers' license or identification cards rather than an "M" for male or "F" for female. The move was cheered by supporters as a civil rights victory.

The state's Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division expects to start offering the option in July.

"I very much plan to head to the nearest DMV and ask for that ID to be corrected on July 3rd," said Jamie Shupe, an Army veteran who successfully petitioned for the non-binary gender option. "And then I'll no doubt stand out front of the building, or sit in the car, and cry."

Transgender rights have become a flashpoint across the United States after some states, including North Carolina, have tried to restrict transgender people's use of public bathrooms.

At the end of May, a federal court ruled that a transgender boy must be allowed to use the boys' bathrooms at his high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gender; oregon
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And I'm an Avocado............

Sheesh what nonsense.

1 posted on 06/15/2017 4:14:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess it’s one way to subvert the dominant paradigm. And hide your true identity as well. If the gov’t is going to help you do that...good!


2 posted on 06/15/2017 4:18:32 PM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Sub-Driver

From the land of lumberjacks? This?

What happens when the cops put out an APB? Look out for “it”?

None of these people are transgendered. They’re drag queens.


3 posted on 06/15/2017 4:20:56 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: Sub-Driver

From the land of lumberjacks? This?

What happens when the cops put out an APB? Look out for “it”?

None of these people are transgendered. They’re drag queens.


4 posted on 06/15/2017 4:20:59 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: Sub-Driver

1 Adam 12, reports of shots fired, caller described the suspect as an X.


5 posted on 06/15/2017 4:22:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m good with a 3rd option - that would make the choices:

Male
Female
Mentally ill and/or pervert

Helps to quickly assess things if they self-identify.


6 posted on 06/15/2017 4:23:01 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Sub-Driver
That SHOULD BE
7 posted on 06/15/2017 4:24:04 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Sub-Driver

IDIOTS !
I guess the state of Oregon thinks it can legislate DNA.


8 posted on 06/15/2017 4:24:56 PM PDT by A strike (Television, and ESPECIALLY Madison Avenue is racist.)
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To: Sub-Driver
'X' would be more offensive than 'It'.


9 posted on 06/15/2017 4:25:37 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Sub-Driver

Why would “transgender” advocates cheer something that is of no gender?


10 posted on 06/15/2017 4:27:37 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Sub-Driver

How will this bs fly with the upcoming National Standards for Driver’s licenses?

Where only male or female sexes is allowed on that official id.


11 posted on 06/15/2017 4:27:52 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are Millwall and on Flight 93 for our country! Lets Roll! For Americans and President Trump!)
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Avocado? Sheesh, how passé; I've been a mushroom for years. Stick that one in your pipe....
12 posted on 06/15/2017 4:29:10 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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“..I guess the state of Oregon thinks it can legislate DNA...”

Typical liberals in their faux world. Reality does not play into it.


13 posted on 06/15/2017 4:30:02 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Sub-Driver

They can call "it" anything they like.

That doesn't change what "it" really is.


14 posted on 06/15/2017 4:31:29 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Demographic Tsnami - Have Big Families)
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To: Sub-Driver

Then other states will be sued to make them do the same thing. And the dick choppers win again.


15 posted on 06/15/2017 4:35:05 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Le Pen: "Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on civilization.")
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To: Sub-Driver

I am for adopting the all inclusive pronoun She, He, It and or Transsexual or simply us the acronym S.H.I.T.


16 posted on 06/15/2017 4:36:18 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Francis A. Schaeffer has argued, “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.


17 posted on 06/15/2017 4:36:49 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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To: Sub-Driver; avacado
And I'm an Avocado............

Pinging Avacado...

18 posted on 06/15/2017 4:49:58 PM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: null and void

“Pinging Avacado... “ Is that the spelling near the event horizon? Void is void, and null is null, and never the twain shall meet.:)


19 posted on 06/15/2017 5:00:10 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
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To: Sub-Driver

We need to change the American flag to show 49 stars and a white question mark, or a printed “Whatever,” to represent Oregon.


20 posted on 06/15/2017 5:07:45 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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