Lib Dems table Bill for ‘X’ gender option on passports
Ahead of International Non-Binary People’s Day on Tuesday, July 14, Liberal Democrat Equalities Spokesperson Christine Jardine will present a Private Members’ Bill in the House of Commons to require the Government to introduce an ‘X’ gender option on passports.Christine Jardine’s ‘Non-gender-specific Passports Bill’, supported by Stonewall, would ‘require the Secretary of State to make non-gender-specific passports available to non-gendered, non-binary and other people who do not identify as, or exclusively as, male or female.’This change would bring the UK into line with other countries such as Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands and New Zealand that already include non-binary gender options on passports, as.
