The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi
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 non-binary, bisexual and gender-uncertain people.
According to Reuters reported on the 27th, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement that the State Department has issued the first US passport with an "X" gender mark. Price did not identify the holder of the first "x" gender passport, but lambda legal, a civil rights group, said its client, Dana zzyym, was the holder of the first "x" gender passport.
"I almost cried when I opened the envelope, pulled out my new passport, and saw the bold 'x' under the 'gender'." 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 was rejected because he was reluctant to choose "male" or "female" as a gender marker.
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