Biden Admin Issues First "X Gender" Passport...
The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation, marking a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who do not identify as male or female, and expects to be able to offer the option more broadly next year, the State Department said Wednesday.
The department did not identify the passport recipient, but Dana Zzyym, an intersex activist from Fort Collins, Colorado, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that they received it. Since 2015, Zzyym, who prefers a gender-neutral pronoun, has been in a legal battle with the State Department to obtain a passport that did not require Zzyym to lie about gender by picking either male or female.
Navy veteran Dana Zzyym became the first American to be issued a U.S. passport with an ‘X’ gender marker, designed to give non-binary, intersex and gender nonconforming people a designation other than male or female https://t.co/5AlV2rYvFV pic.twitter.com/aDQpcUpqNZ
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While Zzyym, 63, said he was thrilling to finally get the passport, the goal was to help the next generation of intersex people win recognition as full citizens with rights, rather than travel the globe, Zzyym said.
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