Our Associate Director Dana Zzyym explains what drove them to fight for so long for the first US passport with an X sex/gender marker in a beautiful op-ed for NBC News titled, “America finally issued me an acurate passport. Here’s why it took so long.” 

“For centuries, society has ignored and even hidden the existence of intersex people, which has led to so much isolation and pain — both from social erasure and from forced surgeries that physically erase who we are. I went through this myself, and after years of pain, I felt obliged to do something for my community. I decided that forcing the government to recognize that we exist, on the basis of sex, was a necessary step to end this agony.”

We are honored to have asisted in the lawsuit and forever grateful to Dana for fighting so hard so that future generations won’t have to.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/america-finally-issued-me-accurate-passport-here-s-why-it-ncna1282986?fbclid=IwAR1bvEkER0ap_QWEnl7U5hPt4TorQMAuMvIS4RNLZcbR77gWi1B4jH8D3dY