The State Department announced last June that US citizens can now choose their gender on application forms without a medical certificate. In October, the first US passport with distinction was issued number After the category, an X was included. The purpose was to allow people who did not wish to be selected from the male or female category to apply for a travel document.
Next year, all other personal documents will be available
– said in a statement issued on behalf of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
The aforementioned change is just one of many innovations the Biden administration has put in place, barely a day after the Republican governors of Oklahoma and Arizona signed bills to ban transgender athletes from playing school sports.
Thus Oklahoma and Arizona joined states that had already voted or passed similar laws. The issue of transgender human rights, along with the issue of reproductive rights, has been at the center of cultural and social debates across the United States in recent years.
The Biden administration reiterates its condemnation of the serious and repeated legal attacks against transgender people in the legislation of every member state and voted in the United States
– says the White House statement as the US federal government seeks to remove barriers to transgender people through various initiatives. This includes facilitating travel, providing support for transgender children and their families, facilitating access to federal services and benefits, and increasing the number and visibility of non-traditional categories in federal databases.
