Last Friday Oregon Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed 52-year-old Jamie Shupe's sex from "female" to "non-binary."
Nancy Haque with "Basic Rights Oregon" said the ruling is a "momentous day for genderqueer Oregonians...It's really exciting for the courts to actually recognize what we know to be true...some people don't identify as male or female."
"I was assigned male at birth due to biology," Shupe said. "I'm stuck with that for life...being non-binary allows me to [be] a mixture of both. I consider myself as a third sex."
But "non-binary" can't go on a drivers license. And science has no "third sex" chromosome. So there's that...
