Petitions

This page is for online petitions that support visibility and legal recognition of nonbinary genders, organised by country. Within country sections, ordered with those closing soonest at the top.

Entry format:

• Linked title of petition, date opened 2014-01-01, date closed (or due to close) 2014-01-01

United Kingdom

Open

• Allow people to identify outside of 'male' and 'female' on legal documentation date closing 2019-08-12

Make nonbinary a legally recognised gender identity in the UK date closing 26 October 2021

Closed

• Petitioning NHS Blood and Transplant Service: Change your computer system so that it doesn’t misgender people who are transgender, date started 2014-11-12, date closing unknown
• Reform the Gender Identity Clinics, date closing 2015-03-30
• Legal protection for all trans* and intersex in the UK, date started 2012-10-19, open indefinitely
• In support of ‘X’ passports in the United Kingdom, date started 2012-10-19, open indefinitely
• David Laws MP: Include recognition of non-binary gender on passports in the Lib Dem Manifesto, date started 2014-08-18 (?), open indefinitely Note that this has now been made LibDem policy.
• Make it a legal requirement to not have to fill in gender options on forms, date started 2014-09-15, open indefinitely(?)
• Modify the Gender Recognition Act to be more diverse, date started 2014-10-19, open indefinitely(?)
• UCAS: Change your application form to ask about gender rather than legal sex and offer more than 2 options, closed with 3,089 signatures & an agreement from UCAS to make changes
• Rape law to be made gender neutral, closed 2014-07-08 with 156 signatures
• Help get gender-inclusive title Mx added to online forms, closed 2014-06-12 with 136 signatures
• Gender Neutral Gender Markers For ID, closed 2014-09-02 with 79 signatures

United States of America

Closed

• Legally Recognize Non-Binary Genders, date started 2014-03-21, date ended 2014-04-20 - successfully reached threshold of 100,000 signatures