A transsexual Norwegian wanted two passports, one as a man and one as a woman, but his request was rejected. The Norwegian, a 63-year-old crime fiction writer, applied to state officials in charge of enforcing sexual equality and anti-discrimination measures. The writer's current passport only shows him as a man, which isn't always how he appears as he undergoes treatment. Both the Ministry of Justice and the state police agency, which issues passports in Norway, contended, though, that current regulations don't allow issuance of two passports to the same person. "A basic assumption in the issuance of a passport is...