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[dreamer_easy]

A new Australian law leaves transitioning transgender women and men stuck with their birth sex on their passport, making them vulnerable to suspicion and harassment when they travel overseas, as well as being just plain humiliating. It's a bit of bureaucratic nonsense which serves no purpose other than to add hassles and misery to peoples' lives.

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[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Good point. I don't know how Australian passports work, but in the UK the new thing is for "bio-metric" ones. The ID cards are also intended to be bio-metric. Fingerprints and retinal scans included. And with all that, they really feel they need an M or an F as well?!

I have my great-grandmother's wartime ID card, and it doesn't mention gender at all. Bearing in mind that this was from the days when the country was seriously under threat, it has her name and address on it, and not even a photograph. That was felt to be enough. What's changed?

Love your trilobite, btw. :)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

With all that biodata, maybe they should just put "46XX" or whatever on the card. :-)