New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that will allow New Yorkers to designate their gender on state-issued identification with an “X.”
The Gender Recognition Act, which was passed by state lawmakers early this month, allows non-binary New Yorkers a third choice along with male and female to indicate their gender on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates.
The bill will also remove the requirement for those who wish to change their name to publish it along with their previous name, place of birth, birthday and address in a newspaper.
“Every New Yorker deserves to be free from discrimination and have state-issued identification and processes that respect them for who they are, recognize their gender identity and protect their safety,” Cuomo said Thursday in a press release. “This bill is another landmark that ensures New Yorkers can express ourselves for who we are.”
LGBTQ advocacy groups supported the bill as being more than about respecting one’s identity, and about protecting the rights and safety of these marginalized groups.
Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez Rojas said before the bill passed the assembly earlier this month that it will lift healthcare and financial barriers for transgender and non-binary people.
“It will help trans and non-gender-conforming and non-binary people [have] better access to employment, rent an apartment and even access to healthcare,” she said. “This is also important for trans youth who will be able to with parental permission to change the gender marker of their state IDs as well.”
State Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman said signing the bill into law during June “is a wonderful way to celebrate pride month.”
“I am proud to live in and represent a state that respects and values the needs of these communities — particularly as queer, and especially as transgender people, have come under attack in recent months across our country,” he said.
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The Gender Recognition Act signed by the incompetent Governor Cuomo, who is also known as a facilitator of crime and who is also a murderer of the elderly in nursing homes. I have my own “Gender Recognition Act”, in that, there are only males and females in the human race. So Governor Cuomo, you are not only a facilitator of crime, you are not only a murderer of the elderly in nursing homes, you are a total airhead, as their are only males and females in the human race!
Why don’t we just tattoo an “X” on their foreheads so our kids know when to flee to the hills for mind and private parts protection. Lots of mass murderers were named after John Wayne, Like John Wayne Gacy the killer clown whose basement burial temperature as 33 below,,,Monte Wayne Lamb, John Wayne Boyer, John Wayne Lewis, John Wayne Duvall. I hear Transgenders have embraced the name John Wayne Bobbitt as the most popular name for their adopted kids.
Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you what you are. John Wayne Cuomo just out’d himself to be not only a mass murderer but a cut below the belt when it comes to who to trust your children to. He obviously is as good at Catholic circumcision as he is at COVID control in nursing homes.
How’s about we BRAND IT!
You mean they can now legally and unashamedly claim that they are either male or female? Coooooooollllll!!!
Jude 1:7
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion.
They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
John 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Ones relationship with GOD, is entirely between them and GOD.
You won’t be able to blame your behavior, actions and character on Donald Trump.
Hey, you are talking about a man who is becoming the salt of the earth, just like Lot’s wife.
Andy is no doubt greasing the skids to claim homo-erotic-diversified-victim when ongoing sexual harassment claims come to court in the Cuomo calendar.
Anyone having a Y-chomosome is a male. No exceptions.
Anyone not having a Y-chromosome is a female. No exceptions.
There is no other gender. None. No exceptions.