In October 2021, Dana Zzyym became the first person in the U.S. to receive a passport with an “X” marked in the sex field, instead of male or female.
It wasn’t without a fight. Zzyym, a Navy veteran who is nonbinary and intersex, spent six years battling the State Department in court to get a set of accurate travel documents. Four years later, Donald Trump put people like them in legal limbo on his first day in office.
