gender marker
Sex designation symbol
A gender marker is an official designation of sex or gender on legal documents—birth certificates, passports, driver's licenses.
The term appears frequently in discussions of transgender rights, where changing one's gender marker often involves navigating bureaucratic requirements: She finally got her gender marker changed on her passport.
Some jurisdictions now offer nonbinary options like X alongside M and F.
- sexReproductive category or act
- identityWho someone is
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- checkboxToggleable selection indicator
- MThirteenth alphabet letter
F · tick box · nonbinary · transition · legal · legal name change · birth certificate · vital records · driver's license · social security · pronouns · documentation · identity documents · bureaucracy · form · designation · classification · assigned
- gendermale, female, masculine, feminine, man
- legal statuslegal status, legal capacity, civil status, personhood, legal entity
- LGBTQ rightsgay rights, trans rights, lesbian rights, gay marriage, marriage equality
- transgendertrans women, trans men, trans woman, trans man, transwoman
- ID cardsID card, identity card, photo ID, national ID, driver's license
- identity documentsID card, identity card, birth certificate, identity papers, national ID
gender, genders, gendered, gendering, engender, engendered, engendering, engenders, mark