Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Santa Clara, introduced a bill Tuesday to direct the U.S. State Department to add a third gender option to U.S. passports for applicants who do not identify as male or female.
The third option, “unspecified,” would be available for U.S. passports, passport cards and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and would not require applicants to present proof of their gender identity via signed
affidavit from their doctor.
The bill would also allow applicants to forego identifying their gender as not male or female on their passport if they feel it would be a detriment to their safety when traveling.
Nearly a dozen countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, India and New Zealand, already offer the option of more than two gender options on their passport applications.
Why don’t we just add switch hitter that way everyone can keep changing their gender depending on what day of the week it is.
Sorry very old school and this is beyond the accommodations that the world should have to make for a chosen few.
It’s all becoming very clearthat people are doing too many drugs and not in their right minds..
Look in the mirror after your shower and you will see your gender. Male or Female. The only other one is Lunatic..
1984 a way of keeping track
Is this really necessary? “Unspecified” gender is absurd. I guess there are other countries that are more “out there” than CA.
This is getting ridiculous. Wake up there are are only two genders no matter what you want to call yourself. I swear this is becoming a mental issue for these politicians that keep pushing this crap. We need to vote out all of these democrats that keep pushing this stuff instead of working on real problems
Damm straight you and aunt Barbara are right about this. these people making these rules have definite mental issues. I really don’t know how they get into office to begin with ? they are hypocrites themselves when it comes to most of these laws and issues.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Santa Clara IQ is unspecified.
There are two genders.
There are no others.
People need to vote for more intelligent Representatives.
How is this even a thing… I need a safe space
Thanks for the laugh, Jeff.
🙂
In fifty years there will be a dozen options. As dumb as it sounds I guess in the long run should we really care?
Madness. This is demonic stuff being nurtured by demonic politicians. You can’t change your chromosomes
OMG
Awesome! Strong work Democrats! That will definitely make the state and county a better, more prosperous, safer and healthier place for your constituents.
ok so when does the classification just stop
how about that no classification at all ….not needed anymore
then what will the want to be seen but unseen self absorbed do
when their antics are passé
no more gender games
no classifications at all will stop the tirade of the pouters and moaners from having to clash with anything and every thing because they can and impress their friends
you don’t need to anti gender to show your different duh
its like claiming your religion is better than someone else
pass that bill slackers …..there will be no classification …no lbqwerty…no waterbottle or snowflake or killjoy…
nothing but human …lol imagine that …oh wait ….can see it now ….
WERE NOT HUMAN chants from any and all special interest groups or designations ….well oh well ….seems like a pit of despair for the gender games …
so lets just spend more money catering to the self absorbed
Excuse me? What did you say?
Evidently polygamists are using same sex marriage logic to argue for legalized polyamory. Fascinating turn of events.
Call it what it is, polypromiscuity!
So glad to see we’re following Bangladesh’s lead.
Sigh. I’m getting too old for this world.
I thought there were only 2 genders, male and female…pandering to the .0000001% of the population should garner the votes required?
at bdml, exactly! And don’t get me started on gender-neutral bathrooms, inconveniencing 99.99% of us. Does anyone really like this? Always feel so sorry for the older people forced to stand in looong lines for the gender-neutral toilet. I always think at some point, citizens in California are going to ask, why did we do do this again?
PESFG @NutcreekFrontier. Gender neutral bathrooms were invented to save money on the cost of urinals and in the overall cost of space and building it.
I’m so appalled by gender neutral restrooms. I had to use one the other day and somebody left the seat up. Disgusting! Beam me up Scotty!
@gittyup. It’s a toilet seat. It’s really pretty simple to operate. Try it some time. You might find that it’s easy enough that even YOU can do it.
Oh, I know how to operate it! I just don’t think I should have to!
How common is hermaphrodite?
Here’s what we do know: If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births.
This society won’t last 3 generations.
Wow, so many closed minded people. Sounds like no one (cares to) understands LGBTQ. The world is not black and white. And ‘Chet’ it had nothing to do with gentitalia.
It is black and white, on your birth certificate.
That is the sex that goes on your passport, the highest form of ID that normal people get.
It’s simple.
We are tired of having this crap shoved down our throats. It’s not a matter not understanding. It’s a fact of biology that there are only 2 sex’s male and female. Any other than that is made up in some ones own head. No genetic test in the world will ever say anything different.
Male or female
There’s what somebody feels, and then there’s biology/anatomy. Except for the rare hermaphrodite and Turner’s Syndrome (XY) woman, both conditions being considered birth defects due to abnormal hormone levels in the womb, we have male and female genders. Just as sexual preference doesn’t change gender, wishing to be something else doesn’t make it so.
Allowing “other” for safety reasons in other less tolerant countries makes no sense to me, as the presence of the gender “other” on a passport will immediately trigger concerns or bias in those countries.
To Rico. Please do look up Turner Syndrome, it is a chromosomal disorder. In a case like mine, the second X is either actually missing (XO) or the second X is “broken”.
You are all making a big deal out of nothing. The main reasons I can see for forcing people to be male or female are: identifying bodies in a disaster, selling different style clothes, and, well nothing. Many cultures have had “intermediate” sexes. So let people be whatever they want. Worry about something important like the huge deficit that the current government is building up.
In a wreck a DNA test of the remains will still only read Male or Female Not some made up sex identity.
Would you enlighten us as to which culture(s) has more than 2 genders? California doesn’t count.
Since you asked, and I looked it up on Wikipedia here’s the list:
Argentina
Austria
Australia
Canada
Germany
…
I’m not really that happy about looking up answers for people who can do it themselves. You do the rest your self.
Male and female – XX or XY.
Period. Facts are facts.
Show me the chromosomes that identify someone as anything other. I don’t care how you “feel”.
Science deniers across the globe.
I wonder if Rachel Dolezal still identifies as African American? There was quite a hullabaloo when she claimed she was something other than what her genetics made her.
There are 2 genders- Male and Female. That’s it. Anything else is BS.
The world has 2 colors: Black or White- Male or Female there is NOT another gender “option”. Politicians need to invest their time and citizen’s money in something more important than this….
I get the safety part after reading a few comments on here.
Reflect on the universe – then, visualize traveling outward :::: past the infinite planets & moons, stars, solar systems, galaxies, and black holes.
How significant in all that is the question of how many genders we recognize?
Very significant when creating a government issued passport.
“What significance is gender in the Andromeda Galaxy on Planet Marf-Derp?”
Come back to earth, buddy, let’s stay on topic.
Just lose gender all together. Let the photo speak for itself.
Have you actually SEEN some of these photos? Without a gender it would confuse people even more.
Do we even want to know how the TSA checks you for a 3rd Gender?
Thanks for the chuckle Chuckie.
Glad to see our elected representatives are working on the important stuff
Only three?
D-Santa Clara, speaks volumes.
When two third genders manage to have a child . . . . .
Seems an odd thing to be strongly against. Or strongly for, for that matter. I mean who really gives a sh*t what people call themselves? Who has time to worry about it?
Thirty nine previous posters apparently. And now forty. Whatever.
I agree, right up to the point when the law of unintended consequences kicks in.
Dump the singular “gender” which is a convenient label. Today, with make-up, fake breasts and padding for curves, cross dressing and hair of any length and color….”gender” is no longer a solid established factor. Let’s go to DNA, the one thing that no matter what you do, or try to do, you can’t change. Problem solved. On the passport there will be 2 identities – Gender Identity and DNA.
well thraxx
lets look at history for a moment shall we
as well lest we forget the person who put a steaming hot cup of coffee from a drive thru
between their legs and then ….well they sued because they couldn’t hold themselves responsible for spilling it on themselves …doh
now the issue is as we know ….with this will be someone questioning down the line as they visit mexico or Europe or Canada and smirks or asks questions …
then oh my civil rights were violated and create a scene ….
and the one that happens every time in a foreign country by ignorant americans
shouting im an American in a foreign country and expecting the constitution to roll out for them then screaming racism when they don’t get their way ….creating problems where non exist ….
this gives people a out to cry for defamation and millions in restitution
some yayhoo will take it upon themselves to declare they are a tree or piece of paper or even the declaration of independence
and sue for defamation
and we will have to pay for it …..
its coming ….it always does
Trying to make sense of that made my nose bleed. You could be completely agreeing or vehemently disagreeing, I honestly have no idea. Maybe cut all the letters you need from magazines and paste me a note? 🤪
I stopped reading his nonsense years ago.
Regardless of what people want to call themselves, bottom line is, is you were still born female or male so you will ALWAYS be one or the other whether you like it or not!
I’m just glad San Jose does not have any bigger problems.
I see all sorts of red flags when the government begins catering to the undecided.
I’m thinking the Senate won’t pass this, even if the House does.
We could call the third gender…. “..Dunno.”
Oh how about “Nunya” for Nun-ya-business?
“Unspecified”? How about “Undeclared”, or “Confused”, or “Not sure but willing to learn”.
Personally, I don’t care how a person identifies. From a security standpoint, I care very much that they are properly identified, especially if I have to share an airplane with them.
Liberal insanity run amuck. Catering to the weirdo leftists who might possibly try this. Confused about your gender? Ask your momma. She’ll set you straight.
You can thank your politicians for pushing the movement of gender identification. I dont care if you identify as a salamander, a slug, wolf or pig. Stop pushing your beliefs and sexual preferences down my throat. Why not be judged on your character rather than if you have a penis, vagina or both. This world has turned into that movie Idiotocracy. Why are we being judged by the color of our skin, beliefs and sexual orientation. The government has caused this separation of the people to get votes. Being a woman, Im tired of men thinking they are woman. You don’t know the first thing about being a woman. It certainly isn’t dressing up in outlandish clothing, hairstyles and make up for a cabaret. Talk about discrimination of woman.