Now ‘male’ and ‘female’ on chopping block

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The issue of gender has dominated public discourse, with schools allowing boys to use girls’ restrooms, the Supreme Court deciding two men equals a man and a woman in marriage, a load of newly devised pronouns to replace “offensive” terms such as “his” and “hers,” and much more.

Now, a political party in the United Kingdom wants to solve the dispute, at least in government, by eliminating references to gender on official forms.

In an announcement on its website, the Liberal Democrats party said, “A ‘male’ or ‘female’ tickbox on official documents should be phased out or replaced with an ‘x’ option.”

The party says its goal is to reduce discrimination against “transgender and intersex people.”

“Current practices make it difficult for a transgender person to have their gender recorded accurately,” the party explains.

The party describes itself as being about building “a stronger economy in a fairer society.”

“Only the Liberal Democrats will finish the job of balancing the books on time, in full and fairly whilst growing the economy in order to create jobs and fund the public services on which we all rely,” the party says.

The party’s explains it want a “fairer society – a society that is fairer for everyone, regardless of background, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or any other part of an individual’s identity.”

The “male and female tick option” is what’s needed, spokesman Meral Hussein-Ece said.

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Hussein-Ece said the Liberal Democrats believe no one “should be left behind or discriminated against – regardless of race, gender, age, creed or sexual orientation.”

“We’ve come a long way in this country towards achieving the equality transgender people want and deserve. But so much more needs to be done. That is why we have designed a package of measure (sic) to help reduce prejudice against the community.”

The party also seeks “the right of transgender and gender-variant children to receive puberty-blocking medications until they are eligible for hormone replacement therapy” as well as “the right of genderqueer, non-binary, and intersex people to access gender identity and reassignment services without discrimination based on their identity.”

The key, the organization said, is, the “phased removal of gender markers in documentation unless it is absolutely necessary, and the introduction of an ‘x’ gender option and ‘mx.’ title option on the remainder.”

Those changes on government documentation should be made without charge to the individuals, and the nation’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission should “develop standards of best practice in which equality and diversity monitoring forms request transgender status separate from gender and sexual orientation.”

“Transgender status,” the party said, should be “explicitly designated as ‘sensitive personal data’ under the Data Protection Act 1998 and ‘protected information’ under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.”

Additionally, the government needs “to recognize and observe Bisexual Visibility Day (23 September), Intersex Awareness Day (26 October) and Transgender Day of Remembrance (20 November),” the party said.

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