cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52636133
As an AMAB woman with an F on my ID I would be terrified of going to the US let alone someone with an X on their ID. Glade that the government is starting to realize.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52636133
As an AMAB woman with an F on my ID I would be terrified of going to the US let alone someone with an X on their ID. Glade that the government is starting to realize.
Imo,
It makes sense for a hospital birth record (not a government document) to note “observed sex at birth”, alongside other measurements like length and weight, since it’s a medical record and gives then a moderately good first guess about internal organs.
It makes sense for drivers license and passport to have “gender expression” alongside hair and eye color, height, weight and if you wear glasses. Everything in that section is self-reported and helps make sure you’re the person on the document, but they’re all things that can be situationally different or go out of date. With how dimorphic our fashion is culturally, gender expression can be pretty identifying, similar to the other qualities.
Every other government document has no business recording sex or gender in any capacity. Neither of them is the government’s business.