Following the Governor’s biblical views, Oklahoma recently became the first state to outright ban the nonbinary option on birth certificates.

From Christian Post. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law a bill that bans nonbinary identification of residents on their government-issued documents, making his state the first in the nation to require birth certificates to indicate only male or female as a person’s biological sex.

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The bill, SB 1100, “requires the biological sex designation on a birth certificate to be either male or female and prohibits a nonbinary or any symbol representing a nonbinary designation.”

“People are free to believe whatever they want about their identity, but science has determined people are either biologically male or female at birth,” Oklahoma Rep. Sheila Dills, the House sponsor of the bill, said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. “We want clarity and truth on official state documents. Information should be based on established medical fact and not an ever-changing social dialogue….”

Last October, the state issued its first nonbinary birth certificate, which led Republican lawmakers to pass legislation banning the misidentification of residents’ sex on the document.

The governor said at the time he would take “whatever action necessary” to prohibit the practice.

“I believe that people are created by God to be male or female. Period,” Stitt said at the time. “There is no such thing as nonbinary sex, and I wholeheartedly condemn the purported [Oklahoma State Department of Health] court settlement that was entered into by rogue activists who acted without receiving proper approval or oversight.”

A month later, Stitt signed an executive order asking the Department of Health to stop amending or issuing birth certificates with a nonbinary option….

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(Excerpt from Christian Post. Photo Credit: Photo by Michal Bar Haim on Unsplash)