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Chris J. Karr's avatar

It seems like an obvious compromise here would be to include BOTH gender and biological sex as fields on the password field.

Biological sex being what your chromosomes are XX for female, XY for male. Useful to include to placate folks who insist on conflating both biology and social presentation, and for medical purposes as well.

Gender would encompass however people choose to present socially. Personally (as Emperor of the world), I would make this a limited free text field (if only to save the tax dollars of paying State Dept. programmers to update the dropdown list).

Countries that care about gender can pay attention to that field. Countries that care about biological sex can pay attention to the other.

Seems like a win-win that avoids any social doublethink while also respecting biological reality.

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Chris J. Karr's avatar

I'd also reserve the biological sex "X" for the handful of folks who don't (biologically) fit into the XX or XY conditions cleanly.

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Scott C.'s avatar

Or I don't know, maybe we should stop giving a crap what gender people consider themselves.

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Steve Berman's avatar

Why even bother having passports? I can identify as “rabbit.”

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Scott C.'s avatar

And if you dressed and acted like a rabbit what would it matter?

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Only if Elmer Fudd were in the vicinity.

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Scott C.'s avatar

You know he never actually succeeded in getting the Rabbit right?

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Steve Berman's avatar

It would all be fine until a crime was committed or me the rabbit needed to assert a right as an American citizen in a foreign country. If we can’t be identified then a passport is useless. Might as well do away with them and go with DNA.

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Chris J. Karr's avatar

Hence my suggestion that be a free-text open-ended field.

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