Puerto Rico Supreme Court allows 'X' as a third gender choice on birth certificates

Activists are celebrating a determination by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court to let nonbinary and sex nonconforming radical to update their commencement certificates

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Activists connected Monday celebrated a determination by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court to let nonbinary and gender-nonconforming radical to update their commencement certificates.

The ruling comes aft a radical of six nonbinary radical filed a suit against Puerto Rico’s governor, its wellness caput and different officials.

The ruling means that nonbinary and gender-nonconforming radical volition present beryllium capable to prime ‘X’ arsenic their sex marker connected commencement certificates.

Pedro Julio Serrano, president of Puerto Rico’s LGBTQ+ Federation, called Friday's ruling a historical 1 that upholds equality.

Meanwhile, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón told reporters that she was awaiting recommendations from Puerto Rico’s Justice Department regarding the ruling.

The ruling comes much than 7 years aft a U.S. national tribunal ordered Puerto Rico’s government to let transgender radical to alteration their sex connected commencement certificates pursuing a suit if they truthful wished.

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