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# US issues first gender-neutral passport
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/us-issues-first-gender-neutral-passport/
- Published: 2021-10-28T10:45:18.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-28T10:45:18.000Z
- Description: The first-ever gender-neutral passport has been issued on “momentous day” for non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming citizens.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Queer Corner, Christie Elan-Cane, Colorado, Gender Neutral passports, Intersex, Lambda Legal, LGBTQ, Non-binary, US

The first-ever gender-neutral passport with an X marker has been issued in the US on what has been described as a *“momentous day”* for non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming citizens. The passport was issued to Colorado-based intersex navy intersex veteran, Dana Zzyym, who has been fighting for a gender-neutral passport for six years with the assistance of [Lambda Legal](https://www.lambdalegal.org/blog/co%5F20211027%5Fdana-zzyym-receives-first-us-passport-with-x-gender-marker?ref=scenemag.co.uk).

Zzyym said they are *“ecstatic”* that their passport has been altered, adding: *“I almost burst into tears when I opened the envelope, pulled out my new passport, and saw the ‘X’ stamped boldly under ‘sex’”*. Lambda Legal counsel Paul D. Castillo also celebrated the news, saying: *“This is a momentous day and its significance cannot be understated…We couldn’t be more delighted, both for Dana and, as important, for all intersex, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming United States’ passport applicants who will soon have access to the accurate passports they need.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/gender-neutral-passport-dana-zzyym-600-400.jpg)

Dana Zzyym

The [US](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/us-to-issue-gender-neutral-passports/) first announced that it would be changing its passport policy in June so that trans and non-binary citizens would be able to change their gender markers without medical consent. In the [UK](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/uks-highest-court-to-hear-case-on-gender-neutral-passports/), there is still no option to have an X gender marker on passports, despite a 25-year-long campaign run by non-gendered activist Christie Elan-Cane to introduce a new passport policy. Numerous other countries have a gender-neutral X option on passports, including Argentina, Canada, Iceland, India, Malta, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Uruguay, and now, the US.