Here in Germany one of the few good things that came out of our previous federal government was the SBGG, which - among other things - allows you to delete the entry. And before anyone points it out: I’m aware it isn’t perfect.
This can differ in Dutch cities, as well. Utrecht never noted my gender and government letters addressed me as “Geachte <name>”. When I lived in Amsterdam, they auto-assigned me as female so I was addressed as “Mevrouw <name>” while I lived there. Never bothered to have it changed, though. Seemed like it’d be a lot of effort
nothing has to be perfect. it just has to work sufficiently well.
the idea of just being able to leave the field blank, is a simple enough solution, but it won’t appease the extremists.
personally i like being able to put ‘unspecified’ in the gender/sex field of things. it’s a lot more elegant than the 50+ gender identities that are ‘available’ now.
We don’t.
Here in Germany one of the few good things that came out of our previous federal government was the SBGG, which - among other things - allows you to delete the entry. And before anyone points it out: I’m aware it isn’t perfect.
This can differ in Dutch cities, as well. Utrecht never noted my gender and government letters addressed me as “Geachte <name>”. When I lived in Amsterdam, they auto-assigned me as female so I was addressed as “Mevrouw <name>” while I lived there. Never bothered to have it changed, though. Seemed like it’d be a lot of effort
nothing has to be perfect. it just has to work sufficiently well.
the idea of just being able to leave the field blank, is a simple enough solution, but it won’t appease the extremists.
personally i like being able to put ‘unspecified’ in the gender/sex field of things. it’s a lot more elegant than the 50+ gender identities that are ‘available’ now.