By Malaika Jabali ·Updated October 27, 2021
After announcing it would make changes to be inclusive of nonbinary, intersex, and gender nonconforming travelers, the U.S. State Department has issued the first official passport with the gender marker “X.”
The change comes after a lawsuit filed by Dana Zzyym, “an intersex and nonbinary Colorado resident who argued it was impossible to get a passport with their accurate gender because ‘female’ and ‘male’ were the only options,” NPR
