In the USA, California passed the 2017 Gender Recognition Act "to ensure that intersex, transgender, and nonbinary people have state-issued identification documents that provide full legal recognition of their accurate gender identity."[1][2]
In June 2017, USA's District of Colombia began to offer nonbinary driver's licenses and identification cards.[3] Activist Shige Sakurai was the first to receive one of these "X"-marked licenses.[4] Soon after, the state of Oregon also began to issue gender-neutral IDs.[3]
The country of Malta began to offer "X" gender markers on passports and other documents.[5]
Popular musician Sam Smith came out stating in an interview that "I don't know what the title would be but I feel just as much woman as I am man." [6]
In Germany, a person petitioned the registry office to change the gender on their birth record from "female" to "diverse". In regard to this case, the German Constitutional Court made a judgement suggesting "waiving the mandatory entry of gender in registries, or offering a different option besides male or female", reasoning that "denial of recognition of a non-binary gender identity does endanger the constitutionally protected free personality development."[7]