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WRITTEN STATEMENTS OF OPINION

TABLED ON 19/11/15

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OPIN-2013-0367 Non-binary gender recognition on passports

Raised By:

Peter Black

Subscribers:
Eluned Parrott (23/11/15)
Sandy Mewies (24/11/15)
Joyce Watson (24/11/15)
Mike Hedges (24/11/15)
William Powell (27/11/15)

Non-binary gender recognition on passports

This Assembly:

Believes that people are compromised and diminished as a result of inappropriate gender references on their personal identity information.

Notes that all passports issued by HM Passport Office are currently gender-specific;

Notes that citizens of Australia, New Zealand, India, Nepal and Pakistan are able to obtain a non-gender-specific X passport;

Believes that similar provision is needed in the UK where current discriminatory policy denies non-gendered, bi-gendered and gender-fluid people a legitimate identity; and

Calls on the Welsh Government to make representations to the UK Government and HM Passport Office to make non-gender-specific X passports available in the UK.