The Dutch government thinks all passports in the future should be gender neutral and is scrapping gender markers on its national ID documents.
The Netherlands is already one of the few countries in the world to allow people to have ‘X’ rather than ‘M’ or ‘F’ passports.
Now it is going further by saying it won’t put people’s gender on national identification cards in the future. It’s keeping the gender markers on passports for now – due to international aviation rules.
However, it says that if enough European Union member states back the change in future, passports should become totally gender neutral too.