The Big Read: The right to be non-binary

A judge in Oregon has granted a petition allowing a person to legally choose neither sex and be classified as non-binary: an important development for transgender Americans while civil rights and sexual identity are in the national spotlight, advocates and legal experts said. Though the petition was granted with little fanfare in a two-paragraph decision on Friday, the experts said that, to their knowledge, the ruling was the first of its kind in the US.