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July 22, 2021

Argentina Issues Gender-Neutral ID Cards in First for Latin America
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Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to allow gender
nonconforming citizens to use the gender-neutral "X" marker on their
passports and national ID documents. Argentine President Alberto
Fernández spoke at a ceremony Wednesday where the first nonbinary ID
cards were issued.

President Alberto Fernández: "We have the need to open our heads to
realize there are other ways to love and be loved, and there are other
identities apart from the identity of a man or a woman, and they should
be respected. And they've always existed, only that in other times they
were hidden."



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