Non-binary gender markers: Mobility, migration, and media reception in Europe and beyond
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2023-08
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The European Journal of Women's Studies
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Quinan, C. L. & Hunt, M. (2023). Non-binary gender markers: Mobility, migration, and media reception in Europe and beyond. The European Journal of Women's Studies, 30 (3), pp.380-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068211024891.
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Although European Union legal frameworks tend to conceive of sex and gender in binary terms, a growing number of countries in Europe and around the world have been increasingly allowing for third gender markers and non-binary possibilities in identity documents, passports, and public registries, of which the X marker in the sex or gender field has become the most common. However, initiatives like the X, which may initially signal trans-friendliness, must be considered alongside heightened border surveillance. As more and more European countries begin to follow this trend of expanding possibilities for registering (non-binary) gender (e.g. Malta, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands), we look here to some illustrative examples (e.g. Nepal, Canada, Pakistan) that have been at the forefront of non-binary legal recognition to interrogate the complications and conundrums that these developments may provoke in European contexts.