Due to campaigners happily working for human rights, the option to identify under category "X" has become available; an option for gender neutral identification. Canada is the very first country in the Americas to allow this option to citizens to freely and comfortably identify themselves in official documents such as a passport; those who have done this as well are Australia, Denmark, Germany, Malta, New Zealand, and Pakistan; along with India, Ireland, and Nepal's multiple third-options. Non-binary (those in the LGBT community that don't identify as either male or female), intersex (not fitting to typical definitions of male or female bodies, those born with variations in characteristics of sex), and transgender individuals have gained a positive step in being represented, recognized, and correctly acknowledged. More work will be done to fully implement this new, amazing event, in order to increase safety for these individuals who worried of being questioned upon their [gender/sexual] identity.
Mattha Busby, a freelance journalist, published the article on Thursday of the 31 of August, 2017, at 00:05 EDT. Current negative events, especially those caused by Trump, are affecting the LGBTQ+ Community, such as the transgender military ban and the attempts to roll back current LGBT rights. A change of news to a positive event is a lighthouse in this storm of human rights, debate, hate, and retrograded thinking. It's great to see a movement towards human rights in the Americas, an example of the past that boosted these positive events being the 6/26 law that allowed same-sex marriage being passed during Obama's presidency.
L- in
G- this
B- house
T- we're not brain-dead and we have common sense for good and swing at cheetos rejects.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/31/canada-introduces-gender-neutral-x-option-on-passports
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