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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   UK Government Under Pressure to Add Gender ‘X’ to Passports   
      
   A gay rights lobby group has called for British passports to feature   
   the letter ‘X’ to cater for those who do not want to identify as male   
   or female.   
      
   LGBT organization Stonewall said allowing people the option of declaring that   
   they do not wish to be recognized by mainstream labels would be positive for   
   those who face difficulties at passport control.   
      
   Tara Stone, of Stonewall, said: ‘Some trans people find it very validating   
   of their identity to have that gender designator. It basically allows them to   
   express their identity.’   
      
   A UK government spokesman said it has already committed to ‘reviewing gender   
   markers in official documents’.   
      
   According to a recent official government paper, an estimated 650,000 people   
   in Britain ‘are gender incongruent to some degree’. The population of   
   Britain is approximately 65 million, meaning that 1% of people are therefore   
   thought to be ‘gender    
   incongruent’.   
        
   Australian and Irish passport holders have been able to choose to be   
   identified under the letter ‘X’ since 2011.   
      
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