Starting next month, citizens of the United States will be able to select an “X” for a third gender when applying for a new passport. This marks another milestone in “better serving all American citizens, regardless of their gender identity,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. “From April 11, US citizens will be able to choose an X as their gender when applying for a US passport.” In Austria, this option has been available since 2019.
The department is the first US federal agency “to offer the X as a gender identifier in an identification document.” Instead of an “M” for “masculine” (masculine) or “F” for “feminine” (feminine), people who do not identify with either of these two genders can enter an “X”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the new scheme last summer. In October, the authority issued the first-ever passport marked “X”. Gender identity takes many forms: not all people classify themselves as male or female.
Source: Krone
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