{{Title link: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-non-binary-genders/j5KvDVvh }}

justice-turtle:

Okay, the previous version of this petition failed to get the necessary 100,000 signatures within 30 days of its creation, so they made another one. Here’s the link which is current from MARCH 21, 2014 – APRIL 20, 2014.

If you signed a petition on this topic before March 21, you need to RE-SIGN to have your signature counted on this version. If you live in the US, please sign this version of the petition and reblog to your followers.

If you are outside the US, it is possible to make a WhiteHouse.gov account and sign without giving a US zip code. If you are non-USian and concerned about the ethics of signing this, here is what you would be doing, so you can make an informed decision:

* If this petition, or any petition on WhiteHouse.gov, gets 100,000 signatures in a one-month time period, a White House spokesperson for President Barack Obama will give an official response to the petition. The response may be either “yes”, “no”, or “yes/no with these qualifications”.

* This petition does not have any direct influence on the law in the US. Getting a bill introduced into Congress to be voted on is a thing done by Congresspersons (our equivalent of Members of Parliament), not by the President. The President can certainly say in effect, “Hey, Congress, it’d be really cool if somebody introduced a bill to make this the law, and if you managed to pass that bill I’d probably sign it”, and if the answer to the petition is “Yes” that’s most likely what he would do (in addition to possibly working for greater awareness of nonbinary people), but that’s the extent of the effect on actual USian law and policy that signing this petition will have.

* You might decide not to sign if you live outside the US. That’s fine! Please do reblog (this or any other post linking to the current petition) and ask your USian friends to sign. Thank you! :D

Not only a worthy cause, but the best guide to White House petitions I’ve ever seen.

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#petition #I didn’t reblog the last one because I figured you’d all seen it at least a half-dozen times already #but this is early enough you’ll still be in the first half-dozen #if not the first #(as I’m still a U.S. citizen I don’t feel much in the way of moral qualms about signing these) #(but if I were neither a resident nor a citizen I think I would) #(so it’s nice to have the explanation there)