Your passport might *say* 'sex'
I've been arguing for some time that it actually captures and records (and assumes you have) 'gender', not sex.
My litmus test: if you can change it, it's gender.
Here's the home office conceding it has your 'gender' on it.
https://twitter.com/FiLiA_charity/status/1201793298601521153 …
I wld say, if it can change they are conceding that info on sex is not needed. In which case: wld be better then to take off that data field or allow redacted or 'X' version. Keep 'sex' on docs where it is needed. Use Ms/Mr to indicate how pple want to be referred to
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I suspect, rather than conceding that sex is not needed at all, the home office are adopting an "acceptable level of data corruption" by allowing a limited proportion of people to corrupt their own data. It's relying on a double standard I think sex is still valuable ID data.
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I think to avoid fudging this we as a society will need to be clearer where sex matters (and therefore the information shouldn't be corrupted) and where people have a right to privacy about their sex (and it shouldn't be recorded)
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I agree, ai don't understand the point of having a "sex" field that can be changed. If we don't need to record it accurately, why record it at all?
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