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The City of Seattle
Ordinance
Council Bill
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An ordinance relating to civil rights protections for diverse sexual orientations and relationship structures; amending the definition of the sexual orientation protected class to recognize gender identities outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation; and amending Sections 3.14.910, 3.14.931, 4.80.020, 6.02.270, 6.202.230, 14.04.030, 14.06.020, 14.08.020, 14.11.020, and 18.12.280 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
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The City of Seattle (City) recognizes the diverse composition of its citizenry and values its people, including the diverse composition of families and intimate relationships.
The City recognizes that many people living in, working in, and visiting Seattle are part of diverse relationship structures, including those involving more than two adults engaged in loving and consensual relationships, and blended, multi-generational or extra-nuclear families where two or more adults share co-parenting responsibilities.
The City reaffirms past public policy choices made by the State of Washington, and the City itself, recognizing the existence of gender identities beyond the male and female gender binary, such as the City's all-gender restroom ordinance, City guidance on gender identity in the workplace promulgated by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights and the Department of Human Resources, and state recognition of non-binary gender markers on birth certificates and state identification documents.
The City recognizes the validity of pansexuality (experiencing potential attraction to other people, regardless of gender identity) and asexuality (not experiencing sexual attraction to other people, but potentially experi...
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