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   zip (zip@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 19:59:07 JST zip

   ID documents have three components:
   1. Authenticating the issuer, eg with hard-to-do stuff like holograms
   2. Authenticating the owner with biometric data
   3. Authorizing the owner, ie, proving name, age, address.

   Where does gender fit into this picture? If it's proving who owns the ID, a photo does a better job and disallowing change discriminates against trans people by making their IDs unusable. If it's an authorization then its explicit purpose is to either supervise or out trans people.

   • goatsarah and Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: repeated this.
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     zip (zip@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 20:02:41 JST zip

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     By "supervise" I mean the shockingly common tendency, especially amongst those actively opposing self-ID, to believe that there has to be A Process and you need Proper Permission: in their minds ID should either out trans people every time or out the ones who haven't Done Things Properly.

     There's no need for gender on ID. Perhaps it was helpful before photo ID, but now the only thing it can even do is facilitating discrimination.