‘Not An April Fools Joke’: Biden Admin Unveils ‘X’ As Third Gen­der Iden­ti­ty For Immi­grants

‘Not An April Fools Joke’: Biden Admin Unveils ‘X’ As Third Gender Identity For Immigrants

An agency under the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty (DHS) of the Biden admin­is­tra­tion announced on Mon­day a third gen­der option, “X,” defined as “Anoth­er Gen­der Iden­ti­ty” for immi­grants seek­ing U.S. cit­i­zen­ship.
U.S. Cit­i­zen­ship and Immi­gra­tion Ser­vices (USCIS) said in a post on its web­site that the option will appear on the revised N‑400 appli­ca­tion for nat­u­ral­iza­tion.
The agency also not­ed that it is updat­ing its pol­i­cy man­u­al “accord­ing­ly to account for this form revi­sion and oth­er forth­com­ing revi­sions that will add a third gen­der option.”
Appli­cants who have a pend­ing form were advised they may request to update their gen­der.
“For all oth­er forms, indi­vid­u­als must wait until USCIS revis­es those forms to i …