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Source: Phoenix.com
Author: Phoenix.com
The U.S. State Department issued a statement on October 27 local time saying it had issued the first U.S. passport with an "X" gender mark. The "X" gender tag is designed to add a mark other than male or female to the passports of people who are not binary, bisexual and gender uncertain.
Jessica Stern, the State Department's special envoy for sexual minority rights, called the move historic and celebratory, and would align the government-issued document with the "living reality" that there is a broader spectrum of gender identity in society that exceeds the previous gender definition.
Lambda Legal, a civil rights group, said its client, Dana Zzyym, was the holder of the first "X" gender passport.
"When I opened the envelope, pulled out my new passport, and saw the bold 'X' printed under the 'gender', I almost cried." As an intersex and non-binary person, Zim said on the 27th, "It took [though] six years, but having an accurate passport, a passport that wouldn't force me to be male or female, but admitting that I was neither, was a liberation." ”
According to a statement released by The Law Firm of Lambda, Zim, a U.S. Navy veteran, uses the gender-neutral pronoun "they." Zim's previous passport application, rejected because of a reluctance to choose "male" or "female" as a gender marker, has been seeking the option of adding a neutral person's name to his passport through litigation for years.
This article is synthesized from The Paper, China Daily, and Look at News Knows