(CNN) - In the District of Columbia, drivers now have a third option for their driver's licenses: male, female, or "X."
People began lining up hours before the department of motor vehicles offices opened. They wanted to be the first in line to get a gender-neutral X on their identification or driver's licenses.
Nick Sakura has been waiting 14 years for this moment. Sakura was in line at 4:45 a.m.
"I wanted to be the first person in the U.S. to apply for that non-binary, gender neutral driver's license," Sakura said."For me it's important to have an ID that validates my existence to where I know that the government recognizes that I am a person and that I want to have an ID that isn't false."
Since February, transgender rights groups and healthcare workers began working with the DMV and the mayor's office to make this day a reality."
By 8:15 a.m. Sakura had the first driver's license with an X on it.
Washington, DC, is the first in the nation to start offering the gender-neutral ID, but Oregon will start issuing them in July, and California and New York are looking at their own legislation.
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