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EU states must provide proper ID for transgender citizens

The EU's top court on Thursday said the bloc's countries must provide trans citizens IDs reflecting their "lived gender." The case was referred to the ECJ by Bulgaria, which sought clarity on the issue.

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-states-must-provide-proper-id-for-transgender-citizens/a-76336447

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pq1r@tech.lgbt

Arik

Reply to @eunews@mastodon.social

@eunews or, maybe it's time to stop mentioning people's gender on ID documents. Like, completely eliminate it. There's no actual reason for it.

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mo@mastodon.ml

Мя ��

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Edited 3 days ago

@pq1r there's also no reason to put a name on ID, you know
Just photo, biometric data, and unique number is enough
But people really like putting labels on themselves, so why stopping them from doing it?

Maybe instead we drop unnecessary restrictions, like «you can choose only from M and F» or «you must be diagnosed by multiple doctors to change it» or even «you must get a plastic surgery before changing»

@eunews

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creepy_owlet@mastodon.online

Dmitry Tantsur

Reply to @mo@mastodon.ml

@mo @pq1r @eunews do people love it or are they required to? Race and ethnicity could also appear on documents, and they're used to in some places. This is a great win, but it's solving a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place because someone's gender is nobody's fucking business.

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

Reply to @creepy_owlet@mastodon.online
@creepy_owlet @mo @pq1r @eunews and yet, people get mad when you refer to it as the "state mandatory genital registry" (which is what it is)
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