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Info about one's sex may not be important in every transaction of course, but it is inevitably present in legal records, and the passport/id card is the most ge
by broken-kebab 1y ago
Info about one's sex may not be important in every transaction of course, but it is inevitably present in legal records, and the passport/id card is the most general excerpt from those, it's that simple in common case. Whether a particular flight operator needs to know your sex is another question, and I am not competent enough to know for sure.
- ben_w 1y ago> but it is inevitably present in legal records, and the passport/id card is the most general excerpt from those […] > Whether a particular flight operator needs to know your sex is another question, and I am not competent enough to know for sure. Saying "we need this information on documents like this because it's on documents like this is" is (1) circular reasoning, and (2) demonstrably false. Other jurisdictions besides the USA expressly allow gender to be excluded from this specific document with the identifier "X" meaning "unspecified or other", and yet those legal records are now being rejected by the USA because the USA government doesn't like it. Heck, the USA itself allowed X on passports until very recently. It's obviously, provably, demonstrably, unnecessary to demand it be this way on documents for incoming travellers.
- broken-kebab 1y agoIf there are jurisdictions which make no distinction between sex and gender they are doing it wrong by all measures whether "progressive" or "conservative" as those are different categories. My initial claim was that sex is a valuable piece of personal information on a gov't level, you are welcome dispute it