The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it has issued its first-ever U.S. passport that provides an X-gender designation, rather than the traditional male and female sex designation.
“The Department has issued the first U.S. passport with an X gender marker,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
The department, under President Joe Biden’s leadership, intends for the X gender designation to accommodate non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons. The department said the X gender designation is available on both U.S. passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBAs), which are used to document children born to U.S. citizens abroad are U.S. citizens at birth.
