An identifying document should reflect the current physical identity of a person, else it is useless.
It is meant to identify a person, nothing more, nothing less.
As for where the line is drawn for when changing the gender on the document, I don’t know what would be appropriate. Demanding a that a person strips down naked to identify them is ridiculous.
So then perhaps gender labels should be left off of identifying documents, we could rely on iris scanning or DNA, stuff that doesn’t change and is unique.
Frankly, I am in no way qualified to define this, my main point is that an identifying document needs to identify a person as they are today, not how they were born.
You’d have to start by trying to figure out a quick and verifiable definition of gender. The problem comes when it’s not as binary or final as you may think
An identifying document should reflect the current physical identity of a person, else it is useless.
It is meant to identify a person, nothing more, nothing less.
As for where the line is drawn for when changing the gender on the document, I don’t know what would be appropriate. Demanding a that a person strips down naked to identify them is ridiculous.
So then perhaps gender labels should be left off of identifying documents, we could rely on iris scanning or DNA, stuff that doesn’t change and is unique.
Frankly, I am in no way qualified to define this, my main point is that an identifying document needs to identify a person as they are today, not how they were born.
Government should not have everyone’s dna
I can see the problem with that, yes, I just tried to figure out a quick and verifiable way to verify IDs if gender is out.
You’d have to start by trying to figure out a quick and verifiable definition of gender. The problem comes when it’s not as binary or final as you may think