Gender and gender expression are topics that seems to generate quite a lot of "heat" in this era of political correctness and virtue signalling. As far as the science is concerned there are two things, biological sex, which can only be male or female and then there is gender expression which is much more fluid and can involve many combinations and permutations. I think it is important that we don't confuse these two things, particularly in legal settings. On a passport, for example, I think it is important to record biological sex or gender, but not gender expression, which I believe is none of the business of the person reading the passport and should not be a factor in any action (i.e. allowing entry to a country) resulting from reading such a document. In some situations it seems as though people are confusing what they are with what they would like to be, both are real and deserving of Human dignity, it's just that they're not the same thing.
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