At first thought it seems off because I’m old. After about 15 seconds of pondering I feel it doesn’t matter at all.

Why do birth certificates and drivers licenses need gender anyway?

What @Call_Me_Jay says. Makes no difference to have it on certain documents.

@aster, are you sure of the situation on this?

I believe that the new laws in California allow the person him/herself to change the gender on the certificate to ‘X’ from what it was originally.

I do not believe that a parent now has a right to assign their newborn child ‘Gender X’.

If I am wrong, please point to a source. Because everything I have read talks about the person changing his/her own gender identification.

ˆˆˆˆˆˆ^ You are absolutely right. I stand corrected!

I’m all for people choosing their own genders, but wouldn’t they need to be honest about biological gender in certain situations? Because aren’t females susceptible to certain illness more than men and vice versa? Like, I feel biological gender would be important sometimes.
Maybe not on a birth certificate but I’m not sure.

@SergeantQueen That is between the person and their doctor, no one else.

yeah i know

The neutral gender option is available in British Columbia for birth certificates. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40480386

It’s available for licences in Ontario, and for Canadian passports.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3694753/canadian-passports-x-gender/

I don’t really care. Not my business.

My brain hásn’t quite re-set to remember to use they/them instead of he/she when it comes up in real life. I sometimes forget what people’s gender language preferences are.

I’m involved with a Bunz swap group. People are supposed to be neutral gender or female identified. When we get together I occasionally have ‘damn, is that person gender-identified?’ moments.

It’s of no concern of mine.

Choosing a gender comes in handy sometimes, though. Like on dating sites if a woman is looking for a man but won’t give out her sex (or has no idea what her sex is) she would get responses from men and women and clutter up her site. What if a job listing specifically states they want a man and a dozen women show up for the interview because they don’t care which sex is theirs. Would they not be wasting their time? And what about the man who is to be married to a female but loves wedding dresses? Would he not be treated in a peculiar manner were he to show up at the dress boutique in mens’ clothes wanting to try on wedding dresses? I could go on forever with this but I have to put up the darn tree.

I would think the wedding boutique would welcome the business since they, presumably, wish to make money.

In the case of the dating site, someone who identifies as agender would probably not want to list themselves as male or female since they aren’t male or female, so they don’t want to attract people who are looking for only males or females. They could certainly list which genders they’re interested in dating, so they don’t get replies from people they’re not attracted to.

In the case of the job listing, I don’t think it’s legal to refuse to hire someone based on their gender? The only exception I can think of is perhaps in the case of acting roles? The actor could use their own judgement to determine whether it’s appropriate for them to play the listed role, and choose to apply or not apply based on that. I know multiple assigned-female-at-birth actors who regularly play male roles. They look androgynous enough to pull it off, and theaters are happy to cast them.