Home Office considers gender-free UK passports

UK passport holders may be able to opt out of identifying themselves as male or female under proposals being investigated by the Home Office.

Discussions on the introduction of gender-free documents are still at an early stage, with officials in the UK and other countries examining the security implications of not requiring transgender people to state whether they are men or women.

Passport holders might be able to simply put an X in a box marked sex — via redwolf.newsvine.com