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(8 years ago)A person in the Netherlands has become the first instead of receiving a passport in which his gender is named neither male nor female but neutral. The news follows a court ruling that knows a third gender for people who are not identified by men or women. Leonne Zeegers, a 57-year-old from Breda, has received [...]
A person in the Netherlands has become the first instead of receiving a passport in which his gender is named neither male nor female but neutral.
The news follows a court ruling that knows a third gender for people who are not identified by men or women.
Leonne Zeegers, a 57-year-old from Breda, has obtained a passport with RIX as gender specification, instead of RHEM for '%mannetje (male) or yetVIvew (woman).
When Zeegers was born he was named a boy at his birth certificate and grew up as a boy.
According to Dutch television and radio Omroep Brabant, Zeegers understood it during puberty that a male did not feel, and in 2001 he underwent surgery to become a female.
The Netherlands is not the first country to have implemented neutral-gender passports.
In 2003 there was an Australian named Alex MacFarlane, who placed an X in his passport, becoming the first person in the world to bring about this innovation.
