Australia’s Passport introduces ‘X’ Gender Category

The new passport feature is for the benefit of people who have trouble when going abroad because their appearance does not match their gender, according to Senator Louise Pratt.

“It’s a really important recognition of people’s human rights that if they choose to have their sex as ‘indeterminate’, they can,” Dailymail.com quoted her as saying.

Pratt, whose partner was born female but now lives as a man, acknowledged that there are people with genetically ambiguous gender but were arbitrarily assigned the “male” or “female” sex at birth.

“There have been very many cases of people being detained at airports by immigration in foreign countries simply because their passports don’t reflect what they look like,” BBC quoted her as telling Australian radio.

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