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*In April, Dictionary.com officially added the word "enby"<ref name="Kinlaw">{{Cite web |title=OPINION: 'Sourdough' finally gets its own entry in online dictionary |last=Kinlaw |first=Bernadette |work=Arkansas Online |date=19 April 2021 |access-date=19 April 2021 |url= https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/apr/19/dictionary-has-added-new-words/?features-style }}</ref> with the definition "a person whose gender identity is nonbinary, not fitting into the male/female division (often used attributively)."<ref name="dictionary.com">{{Cite web |title=Definition of enby |author= |work=Dictionary.com |date= |access-date=19 April 2021 |url= https://www.dictionary.com/browse/enby}}</ref> | *In April, Dictionary.com officially added the word "enby"<ref name="Kinlaw">{{Cite web |title=OPINION: 'Sourdough' finally gets its own entry in online dictionary |last=Kinlaw |first=Bernadette |work=Arkansas Online |date=19 April 2021 |access-date=19 April 2021 |url= https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/apr/19/dictionary-has-added-new-words/?features-style }}</ref> with the definition "a person whose gender identity is nonbinary, not fitting into the male/female division (often used attributively)."<ref name="dictionary.com">{{Cite web |title=Definition of enby |author= |work=Dictionary.com |date= |access-date=19 April 2021 |url= https://www.dictionary.com/browse/enby}}</ref> | ||
*In June, the American Medical Association (AMA) made a public statement recommending that the [[sex marker]] should be removed from the public-facing part of birth certificates. Willie Underwood III, MD said that "Assigning sex using binary variables in the public portion of the birth certificate fails to recognize the medical [[Gender spectrum|spectrum of gender identity]]."<ref name="Frellick">{{Cite web |title=Remove Sex From Public Birth Certificates, AMA Says |last=Frellick |first=Marcia |work=WebMD |date=16 June 2021 |access-date=7 August 2021 |url= https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210616/remove-sex-from-public-birth-certificates-ama-says}}</ref> | *In June, the American Medical Association (AMA) made a public statement recommending that the [[sex marker]] should be removed from the public-facing part of birth certificates. Willie Underwood III, MD said that "Assigning sex using binary variables in the public portion of the birth certificate fails to recognize the medical [[Gender spectrum|spectrum of gender identity]]."<ref name="Frellick">{{Cite web |title=Remove Sex From Public Birth Certificates, AMA Says |last=Frellick |first=Marcia |work=WebMD |date=16 June 2021 |access-date=7 August 2021 |url= https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210616/remove-sex-from-public-birth-certificates-ama-says}}</ref> | ||
* Also in June, the US Department of State announced that "The Department has begun moving towards adding a gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons" for passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBA).<ref name="Blinken">{{Cite web |title=Proposing Changes to the Department's Policies on Gender on U.S. Passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad |last=Blinken |first=Antony J. |work=United States Department of State |date=30 June 2021 |access-date=26 September 2021 |url= https://www.state.gov/proposing-changes-to-the-departments-policies-on-gender-on-u-s-passports-and-consular-reports-of-birth-abroad/}}</ref> A government employee stated that the new gender marker would be available by the end of 2021.<ref name="Sanjana">{{Cite web |title=U.S. To Expand Passport Gender Markers For Nonbinary, Intersex Americans |last=Karanth |first=Sanjana |work=HuffPost |date=30 June 2021 |access-date=26 September 2021 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-passport-gender-markers-nonbinary-intersex-lgbtq_n_60dcd4f2e4b04973e5c1fea9}}</ref> | |||
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