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Do US passports have a "Gender" field? My British one has a "Sex/Sexe" field. A prior old style one didn't even have that[1], only listing the Sex of infants (

• Spivak 5y ago
  No they have a sex field, the state is taking about allowing M, F, and X for that. There is really no distinction between gender and sex except as a way for people to explain the difference between “social sex” (i.e. the one people mean 99% of the time they say sex) and “chromosomal sex” (i.e. the one basically only doctors care about). Every one of my trans friends has their sex on their legal documents matching their post transition sex. Which like I get that it’s controversial round certain parts that it’s even possible for those two concepts to not be in lock step but you gotta remember that 20 years ago it was controversial whether one’s sexual orientation could not be in lock step with one’s sex.