City of Somerville removes gender ID requirement from marriage licenses
The City of Somerville, Mass. has officially updated its marriage certification process so marriage partners no longer need to identify themselves by gender. The update mirrors a recent example set earlier this...
Bay State Registry of Motor Vehicles adds nonbinary gender option to IDs
Starting this week, Bay State residents can choose "X," "M" or "F" on state IDs issued by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. This move joins 14 other states, including Vermont, Maine and New...
Nonbinary gender markers will now be available to parents for their children’s initial birth...
Thanks to an appeal from the South Royalton Legal Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School, parents in Vermont will be able to use a nonbinary gender marker of their child's initial...
Vermonters can now amend their gender ID on their birth certificates
Vermont Governor Phil Scott yesterday signed a bill into law allowing residents of his state to amend their birth certificates to match their gender identity.
“Working to make...
‘A win for Boston’: City removes gender markers from marriage certificates
Boston has stopped printing gender markers on all marriage certificates issued by the city and is implementing new guidelines and standards for city departments to "support individuals whose gender and sexual identities...
Anti-LGBTQ message on Medford church sign sparks peaceful protest
A crowd of peaceful protestors came together outside New England Baptist Church on Salem Street in Medford, Mass. last Friday to express their objection to a sign the church had posted with...
Federal judge in Massachusetts blocks Trump admin. policy denying gender marker changes on passports,...
Massachusetts' US District Judge Julia Kobick granted a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from banning US citizens from changing their gender markers, or choosing an X gender marker, on US...
