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US State Department issues 1st gender-neutral passport

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The State Department on Wednesday issued the first U.S. passport with an "X" gender marker. Jessica Stern, the special U.S. envoy for the promotion of LGBTQ rights abroad, told the Washington Blade and the Associated Press during a conference call Tuesday that the State Department would initially issue a gender-neutral passport to one person.

Early October 27, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund issued a news release stating that its client, Dana Zzyym, received the first U.S.

passport with an "X" gender marker. Zzyym, an intersex and nonbinary U.S. Navy veteran, had fought for such a designation since 2015, the release stated. "I almost burst into tears when I opened the envelope, pulled out my new passport, and saw the 'X' stamped

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