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UK Supreme Court: No to gender-neutral passports

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    #272
    John Doe1
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    If gender is just a social construct as they say, why exactly do these people need chemicals put into their body and plastic surgery? Seems a bit contradictory



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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118378705#Comment_118378705

    Only those people who regard biological sex as the most important factor in determining rights accorded in law based upon biological sex need take a test to determine their biological sex. No such test however is required of anyone in making a statutory declaration of one’s sex or gender for the purposes of applying for a passport or any other area in law where all is required is a statutory declaration of either one’s sex or gender. Simply having one’s sex recorded at birth is not a test, it’s an observation and classification which is based upon sex stereotypes - essentially either an inny or an outy, nothing particularly scientific about it, as the method existed long before scientific evidence began to show that biology wasn’t as clear cut so to speak as was previously considered an accurate means to determine sex.

    Even if I were to accept your argument to justify the current situation as being suited to 99.99% of people, it still permits discrimination against the 0.01% who do not acknowledge or adhere to the concept of gender.

    The problem with this argument is that, if all non-binary were to get tested and found to be either XX or XY, then you'd be back to square one.



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