The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) provides a third gender option on Form N-400, Application for Naturalization. “X” is defined as “Other Gender Identity.” Historically, USCIS forms and related documents only offered two gender options: Male and...
Living in the USA, Voice of America journalist Oksana Bedratenko was faced with the fact that here directly indicating the gender of an unfamiliar person could be perceived negatively. Among young people and trend setters, it is becoming bad form to assume what gender your interlocutor is before he/she directly...
The Trump administration views the term "sex" as a biological, unchanging condition defined by the genitals at birth. This is the most decisive step in a government effort to roll back the recognition and protection of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A number of Obama administration decisions ...
New York-born Americans who do not identify their gender as either male or female can now choose the third gender category on their birth certificates. Now people who were born in New York and do not consider themselves to be men or women can choose the third gender, ...
When Sarah was born in 1961 in New York, she was recorded as a boy. Three weeks later, a birth certificate was issued with the name “girl”. The doctors did not immediately succeed in establishing the sex of the child: genetically male, she was born with female ...
New York-born Americans who do not identify their gender as either male or female will be able to choose the third gender category on their birth certificate. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the speaker proposed to make such a change to the legislation ...
Washington state will allow residents to change their gender on their birth certificates to "X." "Social norms are changing," state registrar and director of the Center for Health Statistics Kristy Space told ABC News. — When a person’s gender designation on a birth certificate does not match...
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that allows residents of the state to indicate the third gender in official documents, writes The Hill. The law, which is one of the top priorities of citizen rights groups, also makes it easier for transgender people to change their identity into ...
An eight-month-old baby in Canada has been issued a medical card that gives access to free medical care, which does not indicate the gender of the baby. As far as is known, this is the first such case in the world. The parent of a child named Corey Doty identifies as non-binary trans, then ...