There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
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There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738780
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
@syhr nitpick: The power of
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@syhr nitpick: The power of
/the Fediverse/.@navi Fixed!
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Now 392, Sharkey fork of Misskey here BTW.@AnguaDelphine Have changed to "the Fediverse"!
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@AnguaDelphine Have changed to "the Fediverse"!
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Cool. Surprised so few have signed. I boosted your original so hopefully some more people will sign. -
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Cool. Surprised so few have signed. I boosted your original so hopefully some more people will sign. -
@navi Fixed!
@syhr yay!
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@sunflowerinrain Completely agree. My preferred option would be to scrap gender markers on passports. But the legal protections are still important.
So, unfortunately, there's a treaty for passport standardisation which requires gender information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport
Getting an X in the UK is easier than changing the treaty is easier than getting rid of borders.
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@mynameistillian @radioclash As we all should be
@syhr @mynameistillian @radioclash
Updating one's documentation is always a tradeoff. For many trans people, trying to travel on an unupdated passport means enduring a _lot_ of harassment and potentially being denied entry or exit (and thus getting stranded overseas).
The X option will make travel easier for some people and may also be a way that some cis people might express solidarity.
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So, unfortunately, there's a treaty for passport standardisation which requires gender information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport
Getting an X in the UK is easier than changing the treaty is easier than getting rid of borders.
@celesteh @sunflowerinrain Good to know!
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@sunflowerinrain Completely agree. My preferred option would be to scrap gender markers on passports. But the legal protections are still important.
@syhr @sunflowerinrain gender on ID saves lives. medical treatment is very different between male and female, and in an emergency having that information could easily be the difference between life and death. they probably should list your blood-type too.
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There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738780
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
@syhr Why are people fighting for this instead of to eliminate gender markers? The only reason to put a gender marker on anyone's document is to give authorities a license to discriminate.
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@syhr Why are people fighting for this instead of to eliminate gender markers? The only reason to put a gender marker on anyone's document is to give authorities a license to discriminate.
@PedestrianError There's been some discussion about that under the toot
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@syhr very on the fence about this. recognizing it is good, but maybe they shouldn't force people to put their gender marker in passports, thus indirectly making an entire data directory of nonbinary people in the uk...this can only get ugly
@mynameistillian@plush.city @syhr@social.coop According to the ICAO standard, the sex field is mandatory but countries can just put X (or < in the MRZ, which is also the filler character) for unspecified:
Where an issuing State or organization does not want to identify the sex, the filler character (<) shall be used in
this field in the MRZ and an X in this field in the VIZ.So there's nothing preventing them from effectively abolishing gender markers on passports by just putting X for everyone (which they should do)
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There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738780
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
@syhr U.S. ally here. Wish I could sign.
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@mynameistillian@plush.city @syhr@social.coop According to the ICAO standard, the sex field is mandatory but countries can just put X (or < in the MRZ, which is also the filler character) for unspecified:
Where an issuing State or organization does not want to identify the sex, the filler character (<) shall be used in
this field in the MRZ and an X in this field in the VIZ.So there's nothing preventing them from effectively abolishing gender markers on passports by just putting X for everyone (which they should do)
@noisytoot @mynameistillian This is the way
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@syhr U.S. ally here. Wish I could sign.
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So, unfortunately, there's a treaty for passport standardisation which requires gender information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport
Getting an X in the UK is easier than changing the treaty is easier than getting rid of borders.
@celesteh technically, all listed formats support «unspecified» option for gender, either X or filler character <...
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There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738780
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
@syhr maybe edit to add that one has to be a British citizen or resident in Britain? I wish it all the success in the world, but it is disappointing to click just to see that one can’t sign
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@syhr@social.coop question, is there anything stopping me from saying I'm british and putting in some random british postcode
@Starcross @syhr Yes, it'll be cross-referenced against the Electoral Register. I don't imagine you'd be likely to fool them, to be honest.
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@columbduffy @mynameistillian @syhr
from what I am reading this wouldn't necessarily mean you are required to update the gender-marker if you identify with this; Many of us will still just have the gender-marker that was assigned at birth
at least, if it's anything like how Germany and others implemented it@alexia @mynameistillian @columbduffy @syhr I'd guess that too. This is the current process that the Home Office use when issuing a passport to a person ("customer"). Since there is no non-binary option for a Gender Recognition Certificate, a British person applying for a passport for the very first time must use the gender that they were assigned at birth.
Ask the customer to tell us what their current gender (male or female) is. This
will be either their gender:- they were assigned at birth
- in their last British passport
- that was recognised by a Gender Recognition Certificate
