Identities

How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports

M, F, and X

The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.

Samantha Allen
Samantha Allen
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Samantha Allen

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