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Leonne Zeegers, 57, received his ID card with an "X" to designate his gender instead of "M" for male or "V" for female. Bas Czerwinski / ANP / AFP
A person of Dutch nationality is no longer a woman or a man, but a neutral sex. This person now has an "X" on his identity card, a first in the kingdom. It is also a first in Europe even if the possibility already exists in the Maltese law. Such practice is now also permitted in Canada and Australia. In the Netherlands, it is for the moment a unique case.
From our office in Brussels,
Leonne Zeegers received the first Dutch ID card with an "X" opposite "Geslacht", ie "sex", to replace the "V" for "female gender", which was previously included .
This is the second time she changes. When she was born, she was declared a male despite the medical impossibility of determining whether her sexual organs were female or male. After surgery in 2001, she was able to replace the male "M" she had always had and feminize her first name, "Leon".
But Leonne Zeegers was still not satisfied by his condition and after two years of proceedings, the court of Roermond, in the province of Limburg, had decided at the end of May that his birth certificate could be marked as: "the sex of the 'child could not be determined'.
Leonne received at the end of August his new birth certificate and now also his identity card.
It is for the moment only the application of the judgment pronounced in May in its specific case and the Dutch government will now have to modify the law.
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