'If we are continuously saying like, 'You're not real, you have to suppress that part of you,' what is that going to do to our community?' Oklahoma's Mauree Turner, the nation's first nonbinary state lawmaker, asked.
"As a non-binary Oklahoma who has to sit in rooms with these folks who quite literally pretend that I don't exist - I don't expect anything less from them," they wrote in a series of tweets.following a settlement between the State Department of Health and Kit Lorelied, who sued the department after it refused a request to provide a nonbinary designation on their birth certificate.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia recognize nonbinary gender status and permit the designation on identifying documents, according to the lawsuit."To be able to have that autonomy and have that part, that real intimate part of you really kind of recognized in a big way is really, really important in more ways than one," they told the news station.
Stitt has previously faced criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates over legislation they have called discriminatory. In May 2020, he signed a bill into law that requires anyone handling human remains to be notified if the deceased was HIV-positive. Advocates called it redundant and raised concerns that it would revive old stereotypes, according to Tulsa Public Radio.reached out to Turner and Stitt for comment Saturday but had not heard back by publication. This story will be updated with any response.
Oklahoma’s first nonbinary state representative criticized Governor Kevin Stitt after he said “there is no such thing as “non-binary.” Here, Stitt speaks during a countable at the White House in June 2020.
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