Gender 'X' is now an option on U.S. passport applications
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Re:Gender 'X' is now an option on U.S. passport applications
by Vladimof on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:01PM
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Why don't they remove the gender if you can choose whatever you want?
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Re:Gender 'X' is now an option on U.S. passport applications
by swlp21 on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:24PM
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Probably because there are international agreements with the minimum fields required on travel documents and "Sex" (Yes, Sex - not Gender) is listed as a required field (though actual values permitted are not specified from what I could see, so 'X' appears to be perfectly valid to add if a country wishes to do so on their documents). https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en....
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Re:Gender 'X' is now an option on U.S. passport applications
by trinovantes on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:08PM
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I wonder if this will break any legacy applications that use boolean to store gender
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