The passport option is expected to be fully available to all Americans in early 2022
El United States Department of State announced this Wednesday the issuance of the first passport with marker X in gender designation for those who do not identify as male or female. The spokesman for the Department, Ned price, he said in a statement that he hopes that this option can be offered to all passport applicants in a generalized way «early 2022«.
Price took advantage of this announcement to reiterate «The Department of State's commitment to promoting the freedom, dignity, and equality of all people, including individuals LGBTQI +«. United States binds like this to Canada, Australia, Nepal o New Zealand as countries that open this option for non-binary, intersex or gender fluid people.
El Department refused to reveal who the first passport was issued to, but the law firm Lambda Legal later revealed that he had given it to his client dana zyym.zyymwho is identified as intersexual, has been calling for a policy change that would allow an alternative to binarism in passports for years now.
First passport for an intersex veteran
The struggle of this veteran of the Marina began in 2015 when he was denied the passport he deserved while, curiously, he pretended to attend Mexico to a meeting of the International intersex organization. According to the court documents of the subsequent lawsuit, zyym wrote "intersexual»Above the boxes marked with«M" Y "F»And requested a gender marker«X»In a separate letter. With his perseverance he has managed to be the first person in U.S. to get a passport with gender X.
This innovation is a great milestone for the community LGTBIQ + en U.S.. There are an estimated 1,2 million to four million Americans who identify as non-binary or intersex, according to data from the William Institute at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA). Since the arrival of the American president, Joe Biden, to power, in January of this year, has defended the rights of the community LGTBIQ +I one of its priorities, in stark contrast to its predecessor, Donald Trump.
