Gender marker

A gender marker, gender designation, or sex marker refers to the letter or word indicating a person's gender or sex. This is often used in the context of official documents, but may also be used in other contexts. Terms like "NB(i)", "GF", "GQ", "MtF", and "FtM" are examples of common non-legal or non-official gender marker usage. Gender markers are also commonly used in school-related contexts, such as on student identification cards, report cards, attendance sheets, online student portals, or other school records and documents.
== Official gender markers outside the binary ==
=== Australia ===
Australia added the option to indicate an indeterminate, unspecified, intersex, nonbinary, or other identity (X) on passports in 2013. This option is only available to Australian citizens who can prove their identity via a gender recognition certificate issued by the RBDM,RBDM stands for the Australian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. a revised RBDM birth certificate showing the person's gender, an RBDM recognized details certificate, an Identity Acknowledgment Certificate issued by the South Australian RBDM, or a statement from a registered medical practitioner or psychologist.
=== Bangladesh ===
Bangladesh includes the options "other", "Hijra", and "tritiyo linggo" ("third gender") on some official documents, including passports.
=== Canada ===
Canada offers an option to indicate an indeterminate, unspecified, intersex, nonbinary, or other identity (X).
=== Germany ===
Germany has a gender marker option for diverse or intersex people (X). Germany also allows parents to leave their intersex child's gender marker blank, and intersex adults can remove their gender marker later in life if they wish. Germany's ID cards also omit gender.
=== India ===
India has a gender marker option for eunuchs (E), and also offers a neutral gender marker (X).
=== Netherlands ===
The Netherlands has a gender marker option to indicate an indeterminate, unspecified, intersex, nonbinary, or other identity (X), but also aims to abolish gender markers entirely.
=== The United States ===
The United States includes gender markers on passports, birth certificates, driver's licenses, state and federal identification cards, and social security cards. The standard gender markers are female (F) and male (M). However, some states and territories offer another gender markers on some or all documents, indicating an unspecified, intersex, or nonbinary identity (X).
Laws regarding gender marker change overall vary by state and territory. It is possible for one's gender marker to be inconsistent between documents (such as having an X on one's passport, while having an M on one's driver's license), especially if one lives in a state or territory which restricts or bans access to gender affirming amendments to certain documents. Oklahoma, in particular, explicitly banned the use of "X" on state-issued birth certificates.
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== References ==
Category:Gender
Category:Terminology