Democratic Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who was recently re-elected, announced Thursday that the city council approved a removal of “feminine and masculine terms” from the city charter.
The language of the documents that guide the City should reflect our community. Today, Council authorized the City Auditor to remove feminine and masculine terms from the City Charter. This important step will help make our documents more inclusive of all gender identities.
— Mayor Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) November 13, 2020
Portland will remove the terms “he or she”, “his or her” and “himself or herself” to be replaced with gender neutral language, according to OPB. Terms like “policewoman” and “police matron” will also be nixed from the charter, the local outlet reported.
The Democrat won re-election on Nov. 3 with a lead of around 19,000 votes, according to a separate OPB report. Voters chose Wheeler on the heels of months of unrest that followed the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes, video showed. (RELATED: ‘Need Something Different’: Portland Mayor Bans Tear Gas Usage By Police Amid Over 100 Days Of Rioting)
Both Philadelphia and Tulsa, Oklahoma, nixed gendered language from their city charters this year, according to Fox News. In 2017, Oregon became the first state in the nation to allow residents to select a third sex option, X, on driver’s licenses as opposed to the typical M or F, representing male or female, Fox reported.
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