Gender-free marriage certificate from Cambridge, MA »

This gender-free marriage certificate sets a useful precedent. We question the need for gender to be included at all on such legal documents.

Please get in contact if you have similar examples.

practicalandrogyny:

A fantastic bit of gender neutral precedent from City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA!

violetj writes:

As a resident (for another few days, at least) of Massachusetts, the state allows me to be married to a person of any gender.  They’ve almost even designed marriage certificate/licences that don’t bother me.  There is a problem, though: the marriage certificate does ask for each party’s sex at the very bottom of the form.  As a non-binary-gendered trans person, this doesn’t sit very well with me.

I recently got married.  About two months ago I was in Cambridge City Hall filling out our forms with my then-fiancée, and I had a conversation with the clerk that went something like this:

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Eventually they agreed to let the tickybox be, and they’d call the state office to ask what to do, given my preference that the box remain unchecked.  Well, a couple days later, my fiancée gets a call from them that they won’t force me to state a gender!

I didn’t want to post this publicly until my marriage certificate was well and properly registered with the state, for fear they’d take it away, but take a look

Read the full post and look at the marriage certificate at The Crawl Offtopic

Congratulations to violet and their new wife and kudos to the Massachusetts state office for not forcing violet to assign themself a gender they do not hold!