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The gender-free British passport

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The gender-free British passport

http://www.iol.co.za/travel/travel-news/the-gender-free-british-passport-1.1141990
9/21/11
By JAMES SLACK


Britain is preparing to rip up centuries-old rules by introducing passports which do not contain details of the holder's sex.

The move, following pressure from the Lib Dems, is designed to spare transgender people and those who have both male and female sexual organs from having to tick "male" or "female" on their travel papers.

Currently, everybody must identify themselves as a man or woman, even when they are undergoing a sex-change operation or if they are considered "intersex".
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