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Which Countries Recognize Third Gender Option on Passports?

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Joe Biden, who promised to build upon Obama-era policies to update gender change procedures for government identifications, passports and other documentation.The U.S.

special diplomatic envoy for LGBTQ rights, Jessica Stern, said she viewed the latest move from the State Department "as a way of affirming and uplifting the human rights of trans and intersex and gender-nonconforming and nonbinary people everywhere."While many celebrated as the U.S.

joined a handful of countries that offer a third option for gender markers, the battle for transgender rights continues on an international level.Last year, a U.K.

court ruled that citizens cannot have passports with unspecified genders. Currently, all U.K. passport holders are required to specify.

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