Australia allows third gender option on passports: "X"

[Lobotomy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14926598


Australians have been given a third choice when describing their gender on passport applications, under new guidelines aimed at removing discrimination.

Transgender people and those of ambiguous sex will be able to list their gender as indeterminate, which will be shown on passports as an X.

[Queercommie Girl]

This is a good thing as long as they don't force all transgendered people to label themselves as "X", because actually many trans people would rather be considered as fully male or female.

[GX.]

This is a good thing as long as they don't force all transgendered people to label themselves as "X", because actually many trans people would rather be considered as fully male or female.
No, if you're trans you can now be listed as your preferred gender if you present a therapist letter. Before, you apparently had to get SRS. The X is optional and requires that you're intersex. I'm not sure too many people will take them up on that offer but whatever.

Also the US the social security administration has decided to stop doing gender verification, which meant for example they would notify your employer if the gender marker on their records didn't match what's on your SS card.

[StoneFrog]

TBH cant that 'X' be harmful if that person wants to travel in a country that may discriminate on that basis?