Mastodawn

Good news for our trans friends:

The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that European Union nations must provide transgender citizens with identification documents reflecting their "lived gender" rather than their gender at birth.

To translate this for non-EU people, it's the equivalent of the US supreme court (the ECJ here) ruling that states (the EU Member States here) must respect people's gender choices.

Source: https://www.euractiv.com/news/gender-changes-must-be-recognised-across-borders-eu-top-court-rules/

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Karl Heinz Häsliprinz 4d ago

@joost ... Amd then 4 years later they declare all those passports invalid like in the US?

Not good enough. Delete the category, gender does not belong on ID documents.

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J. R. DePriest

:EA DATA. SF:4d ago

@KarlHeinzHasliP @joost

Just have check boxes for which sex related organs you have.

Check all that apply

[ ] Ovaries
[ ] Uterus
[ ] Testicles
[ ] Prostate
[ ] Penis
[ ] Vagina

Edit:
This was intended as sarcasm. I apologize for not indicating such. I was trying to push this to its illogical extreme because the truth is they will never be satisfied until non-conforming people are eliminated, one way or another.

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Seiryn(s)3d ago

@jrdepriest @KarlHeinzHasliP @joost

Those informations do not belong on ID documents either

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Seiryn(s)3d ago

@jrdepriest @KarlHeinzHasliP @joost

Worse : it would make post-surgery trans people especially visible

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Karl Heinz Häsliprinz

@Seiryn @jrdepriest @joost I believe it was meant with a /s for sarcasm. As in requiring gender markers is as absurd as requiring organ lists.
I hope we all agree that replacing the gender variable with space for an RSA public key would be highly preferred, assuming we do require any ID at all after the revolution.