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“Age” and “gender” in this case are just entries in a government database somewhere. There’s no deep philosophy to it. Trans people wanted to be able to change
by panic 8y ago
“Age” and “gender” in this case are just entries in a government database somewhere. There’s no deep philosophy to it. Trans people wanted to be able to change their gender, so they fought hard for it—that’s what you need to do to get policies like this changed. If people want to be able to change their age, they’ll have to fight for that too.
- epicureanideal 8y agoI think "sex" is in the government database, not gender.
- knicholes 8y agoI just checked my UT driver's license and saw "Sex:" "M"
- epicureanideal 8y agoGood idea. I just checked mine, in California, and it also says "Sex: M". It also unjustly classifies me as having "BRN" hair. I don't have brown hair, I have dark brown hair, and a particular shade of brown hair that isn't captured by the government's arbitrarily chosen tetradecimal categorization scheme. Hair color is a spectrum, and they should recognize that by ending the practice of falsely categorizing people into inaccurate groups. Similarly, they commit the same act of violence against me by classifying my eyes as "BRN", when I am sure my eyes' unique hue is not precisely #A52A2A. [1] http://www.vsp.state.va.us/afis/livescan/files/VAEye&HairColor&RaceCodes.pdf http://www.vsp.state.va.us/afis/livescan/files/VAEye&HairCol... (Yes, this is Virginia, I couldn't find one for California.)
- EpicEng 8y agoGender is malleable; sex and age are not.