Chicago takes small step towards transgender equality

Led by way of a former combat rapper recognized for his homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, Chicago aldermen on Monday took a small, however necessary step against transgender equality. The City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations licensed an ordinance that states: “No form issued by the city shall ask an individual’s sex unless it is necessary for medical reasons or required by another law.” In the ones rather uncommon instances when “selection of gender identity from predetermined options is required by design of any city form,” the gender choices “shall come with: `male,’ ‘female’ and ‘nonbinary,’ the ordinance states. Rookie Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) championed the ordinance in a transfer that was once a non-public redemption of types.