What do the government think people can get away with if a sex is not listed at all?
Exactly! Why this fascination with making people list their gender anyway? And always only the two options to choose from. I always refuse to tick either box in forms, but right now the government in the UK is trying to make us all carry ID cards with gender specified. Transsexuals, they say, will have to have two - one for each gender - at a cost of some estimated £100 each. Why?! I don't know about anybody else, but I'm not a gender. I'm just me. What is this fascination with trying to put us all in neat little boxes?
Sorry - long term lurker here. Hope nobody minds me cutting in. It's just that gender issues really tend to bug me.
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Date: 2007-08-19 07:05 pm (UTC)Exactly! Why this fascination with making people list their gender anyway? And always only the two options to choose from. I always refuse to tick either box in forms, but right now the government in the UK is trying to make us all carry ID cards with gender specified. Transsexuals, they say, will have to have two - one for each gender - at a cost of some estimated £100 each. Why?! I don't know about anybody else, but I'm not a gender. I'm just me. What is this fascination with trying to put us all in neat little boxes?
Sorry - long term lurker here. Hope nobody minds me cutting in. It's just that gender issues really tend to bug me.