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.
