Passports: Sex
2026-06-23 · Home Office · 12710 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require that the Passport Office records the legal sex not the gender of the passport applicant.
Answer
Current Government policy is that UK passports record the gender of the passport holder, using a ‘male’ and ‘female’ sex marker. In the majority of cases, this is determined by the person’s sex as registered at birth and recorded on their birth certificat...