A person begins the process of filling out a passport application with an “X” gender marker, at their home in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 11, 2022. AFPPIX, United States: It’s just a small box to tick on an application form, but a huge breakthrough for D. Ojeda, a non-binary person who on Monday became one of the first Americans to apply for a gender-neutral passport.
It came at a time when Republican lawmakers across the country have been passing legislation that critics say curtails LGBTQ rights and was likely to further fuel tensions around gender issues in a deeply divided nation. “I think that’s incredible,“ said Ojeda, who works as an organizer at the National Center for Transgender Equality and holds a doctorate degree in psychology.
The State Department announced in October that it had issued the first American passport with the X designation for gender after a long legal battle waged by a person from Colorado who is intersex. Ojeda already boasts a driver’s license from their home state of Virginia, where their gender is marked as X. Ojeda said the procedure was simple: they received an appointment, filled out the application and the X box was already there.
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