The Biden administration, with its third option decision, aims to protect Americans against state laws against transgender people. Activists see the new app as a landmark.
‘IT WILL ALSO BE APPLICABLE TO OTHER DOCUMENTS’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the option to mark gender as X will apply to documents other than passports next year.
Until last year in the country, those who wanted to reflect the gender change in their passport had to get a document from the doctor first.
In October, after a long legal battle, a passport was issued to a person in the state of Colorado for the first time, in which the gender division was expressed as “X”.
A NEW ERA
Now, a new era will begin for the more than 1 million Americans who see themselves as transgender or outside the existing binary gender classification.
In the US, the Biden administration reacted to the Republican governors of Oklahoma and Arizona signing bills that ban transgender athletes from participating in sports for girls in schools.
“Every American has the right to be himself,” the White House said in a statement. However, many trans Americans still face systematic barriers, discrimination and acts of violence.