Quote Originally Posted by PaulaQ View Post
I just think we'd be better off without such markers in the first place.......I think the amount of rigamarole required to change a letter on a card and in a database is cruel, ridiculous and pointless.
I totally agree Paula, but as someone (I think it was the OP) pointed out, whether we think a gender marker is pointless or not, it is how society and government currently work when it comes to "identifying" citizens. I think the point raised was that if we are forced to live in a world where governmental systems insist on gender identification, should we not at least have the option to rebuke the binary nature of such identifaction. As for the rigmarole of changing the marker on documents, remember that "pointless" and "ridiculous" are the two favourite ways that governments like to spend our tax dollars. And I don't see who would be subjected to cruelty as a result of such a change. or maybe I misunderstood your meaning. xx