Nepal will add a third gender option to its passports
Nepal has announced that it will issue passports allowing citizens to identify with a third gender if they desire.
"We have changed the passport regulations and will add a third category of gender for those people who do not want to be identified as male or female," Lok Bahadur Thapa, chief of the government's passport department, told Reuters.
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