For Rachel Savage's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
While more than a dozen countries have introduced gender-neutral travel documents, some nonbinary and transgender people are reluctant to use them because they fear facing discrimination.
Defenders of systems that require transgender people to wait claim it reduces later regrets, but many transgender advocates criticize it as "gatekeeping."
Pictures of the American carrying a board showing "they/them" pronouns went viral, as Smith became one of the first Olympians to come out as non-binary.
