Third Gender Options in Other Countries

Earlier this year, two major accomplishments occurred regarding transgender people.

Beauty pageant in Nepal

 For the first time during their census, Nepal took information on third gender people as well as men and women. A recent Supreme Court decision has allowed for a third gender choice on official government paperwork. Even with these steps forward, there is still some brutality against the LGBT community in Nepal. However, many members keep their hopes up due to the Court decision and the fact that Nepal is currently in the process of rewriting their constitution.

In Australia, people now have the ability to use a third gender marker on their passport. They now have the choice of male (M), female (F), or indeterminate (X). This allows transgender and gender variant people to travel without anxiety about their identification.


"There have been very many cases of people being detained at airports by immigration in foreign countries simply because their passports don't reflect what they look like," Louise Pratt, an Australian senator, told Australian radio. "It's very distressing, highly inconvenient and frankly sometimes dangerous."

Now, if only we could implement something like these countries have here in the U.S.