Judge grants person the right to be genderless in landmark ruling 司法判決里程碑 法官同意民眾更改為無性別者
精英翻譯社轉自http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=1131352&day=2017-08-31
◎孫宇青
An American citizen, known only as Patch, is the first person to legally become genderless in the US.
一名僅知名字叫做帕奇的美國公民，是美國第一位合法無性別者。
The 27-year-old video game designer, from Oregon, was granted a "General Judgment of Name and Sex Change" by Multnomah County Court. It allowed Patch to change names and become mononymous, meaning they are known by a singular name instead of a traditional first and surname.
這名來自奧勒岡州的27歲電玩設計師，獲得摩爾諾瑪郡法院批准適用「姓名和性別更改普遍判定法」。該法賦予帕奇改變姓名、成為單一名字者的權利，這樣的人僅具有名字，而非傳統上的姓和名。
Patch told ABC News："As a kid, gender didn’t make sense to me. As a teen, I learned about transgender people, and that didn’t seem like what I was. And then I learned about genderqueer, and that didn’t seem like what I was."
帕奇告訴美國廣播公司：「在我小時候，性別對我沒什麼意義。進入青春期後，我得知有跨性別族群，但那似乎並不是我。之後我又了解性別酷兒的概念，那似乎也跟我不一樣。」
"Even gender-neutral pronouns don’t feel as if they fit me. I feel no identity with any pronouns I’ve come across. What describes me is my name."
「即使是中性代名詞，感覺上也不適用於我。任何我看到的代名詞，我都無法認同。真正表達我這個人的，只有我的名字。」
Amy Holmes Hehn, the judge who granted the request, said following Patch’s ruling："I made these decisions, like all decisions, because they were supported by facts and law."
批准這項請求的法官艾美．霍姆斯．海恩在判決後表示：「我做出這些判決，與做出其他判決無異，都是因為有事實和法律的依據。」
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