{"id":1455561,"date":"2022-04-27T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455561"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:44:47","slug":"oklahoma-gov-stitt-bans-non-binary-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-gov-stitt-bans-non-binary-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Bans \u2018Non-Binary\u2019 Birth Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foklahoma-gov-stitt-bans-non-binary-birth-certificates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation on Tuesday banning \u201cnon-binary\u201d state birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-sponsored bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koamnewsnow.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/j\/t\/Oklahoma-SB1100-Signed-into-Law.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1100<\/a>, limits biological sex identification to male or female and prohibits non-binary designation, gender neutral language and any symbol related to non-binary designation. The legislation also bans people from changing the gender on their birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning on the effective date of this act, the biological sex designation on a certificate of birth issued under this section shall be either male or female and shall not be nonbinary or any symbol representing a nonbinary designation including but not limited to the letter \u2018X,&#8217;\u201d the bill said.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation followed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ok.gov\/documents\/executive\/2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order<\/a> signed by the governor in November 2021 that ordered the Oklahoma State Department of Health to cease changing or distributing birth certificates with a non-binary option. The order came after the department agreed to allow a non-binary option or change to the certificate in May. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/11\/oklahoma-kevin-stitt-orders-halt-nonbinary-birth-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Orders Halt To Nonbinary Birth Certificates)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u203cNEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovStitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovStitt<\/a> signs SB 1100 which bans non-binary gender markers on birth certificates in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Bill passed the House last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AP<\/a> says it is the first bill of its kind in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OKCFOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OKCFOX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b2tWuwYDxy\">pic.twitter.com\/b2tWuwYDxy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Snyder (@DanSnyderFOX25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanSnyderFOX25\/status\/1519076531783573504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill passed the state House of Representatives on March 24 and then the Senate on April 21, the bill said.\u00a0Republican state Oklahoma Sen. Michael Bergstrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklegislature.gov\/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb1100&#038;Session=2200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">authored<\/a> the bill, and was co-authored by GOP Sens. David Bullard and Jake Merrick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are free to believe whatever they want about their identity, but science has determined people are either biologically male or female at birth,\u201d Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Sheila Dills, the House sponsor of the bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oklahoma-governor-signs-bill-prohibiting-nonbinary-birth-certificates?%3Futm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe want clarity and truth on official state documents. Information should be based on established medical fact and no an ever-changing social dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic state lawmakers have overwhelmingly condemned the bill, as state Rep. Mauree Turner called it a \u201cgrotesque use of power,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-health-oklahoma-city-20e3343b93688ac7c3e14a9a4c1c95f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it a very extreme and grotesque use of power in this body to write this law and try to pass it\u2014when literally none of them live like this,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n<p>The Transgender Law Center issued a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TransLawCenter\/status\/1519334358460608513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> called the passage a move done by \u201ca few callous politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSending love to all nonbinary and trans folks in Oklahoma today,\u201d they said. \u201cWe see you and love you. The divisive hatred of a few callous politicians will not keep the great majority of us from rallying by your side and coming together wherever they try to separate us from one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Center for Transgender Equality found that 15 states currently allow a gender designation outside of male and female, including Vermont when its law goes into effect in July, according to the AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation on Tuesday banning \u201cnon-binary\u201d state birth certificates.The Republican-sponsored bill, SB 1100, limits biological sex identification to male or female and prohibits non-binary designation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1480696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}