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as far as I can tell, in the UK this happened in 1988 (with the introduction of the burgundy machine-readable passport) @kyle_snow_miron/1452715060170735616Look on archive.org
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(which was mainly introduced to comply with US standards for their visa waiver programme, fun fact for you there)Permalink Look on archive.org
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I should say, UK passports were not free of gender before that - they would include title ("Mr" etc), they had a subsidiary section for wives, and if children were included their genders would be marked. But explicit recording and categorising of gender is relatively new.Permalink Look on archive.org
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example of an old style passportPermalink Look on archive.org
