People who want to change their gender on their passport will no longer need to go under the knife, the State Department has declared. All an applicant\ need to do now is show a doctor's certification that the or she has undergone "appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition," which could mean non-surgical options, CNN reports. The old policy put transgender people in danger when they traveled in countries where sex changes are frowned upon, says the director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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