Lawmakers in Massachusetts passed a bill to establish “legal parentage equality,” removing language in state law related to birth certificates that reference the male and female sexes.

The legislation, which was passed unanimously in both the Massachusetts House and Massachusetts Senate, strikes the term “father” in state law and replaces the word with “parentage of the child.” The word “paternity” is meanwhile replaced with “parentage.”

The bill also replaces the term “mother” for “person who gave birth,” reflecting the insistence from proponents of transgenderism that self-described transgender men can birth children.

Other terms were nixed in favor of euphemistic alternatives: references to “child born out of wedlock” are replaced with “nonmarital child,” while “paternity of a child born out of wedlock” is replaced with “parentage of a nonmarital child based on alleged genetic parentage.”

Lawmakers celebrated the approval of the bill, which they advanced in order to update “parentage laws to reflect modern-day families,” especially children obtained by homosexuals and “through methods such as assisted reproduction and surrogacy.”

“Ensuring that the commonwealth’s laws reflect an evolving society, along with the implications of modern technology, is a key responsibility that we have as elected officials,” House Democratic Speaker Ronald Mariano said in a statement. “By bolstering protections for children born through assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and to same-sex parents, we are doing just that.”

Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey, a self-described lesbian who recently nominated a former female partner to serve on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, has endorsed legislation codifying the assertions of homosexual and transgender activists. Members of her administration announced last year that Massachusetts would remain a “safe haven for transgender youth, adults, and families in response to increased restrictions across the nation.”