The United States has clarified that a gender will have to be chosen to enter the country

President Alberto Fernández has announced in recent days the issuance of the national identity document (DAYS) To people non-binary, which opened a debate and a series of doubts on the possible legal loopholes that the measure could have.

This is the case for people who have an “X” in the section “Sex” DNI and Passport, as they might have problems when they want to travel abroad. The government itself acknowledged in Decree 476/2021 that very few countries in the world have ever admitted the possibility of not registering female or male on identity documents.

Faced with this situation, the US Embassy raised the possibility of obtaining a US visa for a non-binary person and indicated that “at present, only male and female options are available for a US visa applicant. United States ”, which is why, so far, the North American government is not considering a third option.

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In turn, they stated: “Applicants must choose one or the other when preparing their visa application online and that the gender reflected in the sex field of any visa issued must match the gender reflected in the sex field of the applicant’s foreign passport .; if a foreign passport does not include a gender / gender, male or female field, the applicant must select “M” or “F” to apply for a visa in the United States and in in such cases, the ministry generally issues the visa on the basis of the indication of the male or female sex chosen by the applicant ”.

Despite this situation, they clarified that the State Department announced in June that progress was being made in the process of updating its policies regarding gender in US passports. In any case, at the moment it has not been possible to provide a precise timeline of when they will start offering an option in the “Sex” section for “non-binary, intersex and non-gender” people.

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Meanwhile, the other countries in the world which have the possibility to indicate a third option for “Gender” in the DNI are: Nepal, Pakistan, India, Canada and Bangladesh. From the National Register of Persons (RENAPER), they clarified that “people with a non-binary DNI who wish to travel should consult the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the consulate of the country they plan to visit in case they could possibly have a restriction of entry, stay or transit in the countries of destination ”.

Other questions that raise doubts after this update in the identification documents are those of the retirement age (60 years for women and 65 for men), electoral and work quotas, prisons , collecting subsidies such as the universal child allowance.