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What if it's asking about their sex rather than their gender identity?

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• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  There can be non-binary sexes, too. It's a thing that happens, but it's much more rare than non-binary gender.
• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > What if it’s asking about their sex rather than their gender identity? Legal sex (which is really ascribed gender, and starts out as assigned gender at birth) has the exact same problem as gender identity here. As does assigned gender at birth itself (since there are people for whom that is neither male nor female as legally recorded.) But given the mix of gendered and non-gendered terms in the instruction, its just a product of the fact that both law, and even more the bureaucratic processes and documents supporting its application, is very much not DRY, so “we recognize the existence of non-binary gender” isn’t a point change to the “gender” module of the legal system, rather it requires changes throughout a “code base” that is giant, and has no version control or test suite.