The State Department announced Americans applying for a passport will be allowed to choose « X » as a gender option starting April 11.
« We’re …
The State Department announced Americans applying for a passport will be allowed to choose « X » as a gender option starting April 11. « We’re setting a precedent as the first US federal government agency to offer the ‘X’ gender marker on an identity document, » said Douglass Benning, principal deputy assistant secretary for consular affairs at the State Department, according to CBS News. The announcement comes on International Transgender Day of Visibility. The « X » gender option will be open to all applicants, despite the gender specified on their birth certificate or on other legal documents.
