State Attorney General Matthew Platkin has announced that more than two dozen towns in the state allegedly discriminated against LGBTQ+ people who wanted to get married. The attorney general’s office Wednesday announced violations against 28 municipalities whose marriage license forms don’t let nonbinary people apply unless they misgender themselves as either male or female — a violation of New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law.
The state says the Department of Health created a third gender option for nonbinary residents on applications that have been available since 2019. Municipalities in violation range from Vineland and Delran in South Jersey to Morristown and Sussex in north Jersey. The towns could face fines up to $10,000. According to the attorney general’s office, those towns will have the option to take a settlement offer and enter an agreement to update their websites with the gender-inclusive application. The town’s employees will also have to undergo anti-discrimination training.
