Creating Gender X on Cambridge Birth Certificates

How it started

Jan 7, 2019 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Simmons, Vice Mayor Mallon, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 7, 2019 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui; carried on a voice vote.

the first paragraph by deleting the words “that allows residents and parents to indicate a third gender category “X” on birth certificates”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jan 7, 2019, p. 18.

Jan 7, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended

View the roll call

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

January 7, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Solicitor be and hereby is requested to draft a home rule petition to the state legislature that would allow the City of Cambridge to begin to offer a third gender category “X” on birth certificates, and to collaborate with the LGBTQ+ Commission on this effort.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 7, 2019