These 18 countries legally recognise non-binary people – but the UK isn’t among them

Amid the progress for legal rights and protections for the trans community, only a handful of the world’s countries recognise non-binary and other gender-diverse people on official documents.

Sitting somewhere and anywhere in between the binary gender spectrum (male/female), non-binary people are a diverse community, each with different experiences of their own identity, and, like trans people, non-binary individuals have always existed.

While much of the political discourse is focused on the trans experience, campaigns to recognise and advocate for other gender-diverse groups have grown in the past few years.

Educational institutions and private sector business are slowly but surely making documents more gender neutral, progressive employers have pronoun options on job applications and the “Mx” title is seen on more customer forms than ever.

Despite all that, governments are

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