The Latest: Judge urges settlement in gender passport case

A federal judge is hinting he might issue a ruling forcing the government to stop asking people to declare whether they are male or female to get a passport because of a challenge by a Colorado Navy veteran who doesn't identify with either gender.

U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson said Wednesday that the State Department should settle the legal challenge filed by Dana Zzyym (Zimm) and catch up to an era in which gender is less clearly defined than it was in the past.

Zzyym was born with ambiguous sexual characteristics, a condition advocates refer to as intersex, and does not want to lie on the passport application by declaring male or female gender.