A federal appeals court has ordered the U.S. State Department to reprocess the passport application of a former Navy sailor and intersex activist who was denied a nonbinary passport with an “X” gender marker instead of the traditional “M” or “F.” The majority of reasons the State Department provided for denying Dana Zzyym’s request were invalid, the court ruled, and it instructed the agency to reprocess Zzyym’s application. “We conclude that the State Department acted within its authority but