Thu Mar 9, 2023 – 4:10 pm ESTThu Mar 9, 2023 – 4:16 pm EST
TRENTON (LifeSiteNews) – New Jersey cities that have not included a “nonbinary” option on their marriage licenses can be penalized up to $10,000, the state attorney general warned Wednesday.
AG Matthew J. Platkin announced that 28 cities received Notices of Violation for allegedly violating the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) for their marriage licenses’ “exclusionary gender options,” claiming that they forced “nonbinary” people to “misgender themselves, under oath, as either ‘m’ (male) or ‘f’ (female).”
The office of the attorney general cited the LAD’s provision that it is “unlawful for a place of public accommodation to display or post any … notice indicating that any of their offerings are unavailable based on a person’s sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression.”
Platkin’s Twitter announcement of the enforcement action was met with sweeping rejection, with one commentator decrying the policy as “utter nonsense,” since “It is impossible to change your biological gender,” and another remarking, “Since when are we including mental illness diagnosis on marriage forms?”
Some leftists believe, however, that the nonbinary “X” sex marker is insufficient and that gender designation
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