A bill that would create a "Gender X" option for driver's licenses and birth certificates in Massachusetts is scheduled to get a hearing before a legislative committee on Beacon Hill on Thursday.
Parents would get to choose "X" for sex rather than male or female for their babies' birth certificates, or they could request a change for their minor children later in life. Adults 18 and older could make the request themselves, without needing documentation to do it.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey followed through on his decision not to vote for his own Green New Deal resolution on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, voting "present" instead.
A procedural vote to take up the resolution failed 0-57, with 43 senators voting present. All 53 Republicans voted no. Three Democrats voted no, all in Republican-leaning states: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
