Puerto Rico permits nonbinary gender marker on birth certificates in landmark court decision
Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has reached a decision to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates.The action was brought about by six non-binary individuals born in Puerto Rico who filed a lawsuit claiming that “the Commonwealth’s current Birth Certificate Policy violates the right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, according to the court filing.




















