updated 9/15/2011 9:09:33 AM ET:

CANBERRA, Australia — Australian passports will now have three gender options — male, female and indeterminate — under new guidelines to remove discrimination against transgender and intersex people, the government said Thursday.
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Intersex people, who are biologically not entirely male or female, will be able to list their gender on passports as "X."


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