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| Judge OK’s Petition for America’s First ‘Genderless’ Person |
| 2017-03-27 |
| A Portland student has become the first American to gain legal designation as "genderless", following a ruling by a Multnomah County judge. The March 10 decision, reported for the first time on Thursday, involved a 27-year-old who was born male but claimed to identify with no gender whatsoever. Judge Amy Holmes, who approved the petition, also last year approved a "non-binary" gender designation for another Portland resident. The 27-year-old formerly known as Patrick Abbatiello, now legally designated agender, also got legal approval to change names, now going only by "Patch," no surname. That name also serves as a pronoun, Patch explained to the local NBC affiliate this week. "Even gender-neutral pronouns don’t feel as if they fit me," Patch said. "I feel no identity or closeness with any pronouns I’ve come across. What describes me is my name." By deadline, Patch did not respond to requests for interview sent by phone and Facebook through Portland Community College’s Queer Resource Center. Patch works there as a co-coordinator, and a Facebook post for the center lauded the student for "blazing the way." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 When 'it' goes to the Emergency room I be they tell everyone about their birth gender if it'll decrease the chance of a whoops. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-03-27 17:57 |
| #10 :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-27 16:07 |
| #9 Undoing the hasp, it flipped its lid. Come into my chamber and set it said. Its phantasms swirled, making a tower. Behold, it said, my sickness is power! With such, the world will do as I bid. |
| Posted by: JHH 2017-03-27 15:53 |
| #8 I recognize only 4 genders. Male, female, it (inanimate objects) or subhuman vermin. They can choose or I will. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-03-27 10:57 |
| #7 Him Shim Shit |
| Posted by: Woozle Mussolini1345 2017-03-27 10:33 |
| #6 It's Pat |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-27 10:32 |
| #5 These are all marginal representations of real humans - curiosities, but otherwise irrelevant to normal human life. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2017-03-27 10:31 |
| #4 "I [Patch] feel no identity or closeness with any pronouns..." I wonder how Patch feels about verbs, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections Why does "Patch" hate English? In 2014, FB had 58 genders FB Gender's list. but the gender activists claim gender is non-binary and on a spectrum which is fluid. Agender would probably bring the number to 59. National Geographic had a informative/comprehensive article on the gender revolution (Jan. 2017). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-27 10:23 |
| #3 Dead, Male, Female or mentally Ill seems to be the 4 choices. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-03-27 09:45 |
| #2 It has a gender, 'gelding'! |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-03-27 07:00 |
| #1 If it has no gender, then it is an inanimate object, incapable of replicating itself, as far as I am concerned. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2017-03-27 02:53 |