www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
Pretty soon, the concept of gender on American passports will become all but obsolete. Because starting next month, American citizens will be able to apply for “X gender” passports, according to the State Department.
Starting April 11, “US citizens will be able to select an X as their gender marker on their US passport application, and the option will become available for other forms of documentation next year,” according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In other words, Americans applying for passports won’t be required to identify as male or female in their passport applications, a change that Blinken says will benefit non-binary and intersex Americans, along with other “gender non-conforming” people.
As Insider pointed out, the US isn’t the first country to make such a change: Canada, Australia, Argentina, the Netherlands, and New Zealand already offer ‘X gender’ passports.
