Puerto Rico permits nonbinary gender marker on birth certificates in landmark court decision

Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has reached a determination to let nonbinary and gender-nonconforming radical to update their commencement certificates.

The enactment was brought astir by six non-binary individuals calved successful Puerto Rico who filed a suit claiming that "the Commonwealth’s existent Birth Certificate Policy violates the close to adjacent extortion nether the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, according to the tribunal filing."

The court's determination volition present let radical who place arsenic nonbinary oregon gender-nonconforming to prime "X" arsenic their sex marker connected commencement certificates.

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A Puerto Rican emblem flies successful the capital.  (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

In the filing, the tribunal explains that determination would beryllium nary rational ground to contradict the request.

"The existent Birth Certificate Policy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico arbitrarily distinguishes betwixt binary and nonbinary individuals and subjects nonbinary individuals to disfavored treatment, without immoderate justification for doing so. In specified cases, it is the work of the national courts to intervene, to warrant the equal extortion of each persons nether the law," it states.

Pedro Julio Serrano, president of Puerto Rico’s LGBTQ+ Federation, called Friday’s ruling a historical 1 that upholds equality, according to the Associated Press.

Puerto Rico Supreme Court allows nonbinary and gender-nonconforming individuals to update commencement certificates, marking a historical measurement for adjacent extortion rights. (Getty Images)

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The defendants named successful the lawsuit opposed the request, arguing that "the authorities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a morganatic involvement successful maintaining captious records and statistic regarding its citizens."

The filing argued that this statement ignores the information that the Commonwealth already permits its citizens to amend accusation connected their commencement certificates, including modifying the sex marker.

FILE: Demonstrators interaction a elephantine Puerto Rican emblem from underneath arsenic they protest. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

The legislators person already enacted authorities to guarantee that, successful the lawsuit of modifications, the original, unaltered commencement certificates are preserved by the state.

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Puerto Rico joins astatine slightest 17 U.S. states that licence their residents to see the nonbinary oregon gender-neutral enactment connected their commencement certificates.