# Gender Designation Change Request

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 17, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140 "2016-07-17T18:21:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140/21 "2016-07-18T19:22:30Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> The NY form does not allow for a third gender designation. You still have to declare male or female, regardless of how ambiguous you may actually be, or whether you think that your gender is nobody’s business.
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> Hopefully, in the re-civilization of society, everyone will be entitled to specify “X” or “None”, and then everyone does, and then they stop classifying people by gender, too.

It’ll never happen where I work, if only because we’re in healthcare, and as much as someone may identify as female, their risk of cardiovascular disease is still linked to their birth gender.

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**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140/22 "2016-07-19T16:56:00Z")

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I was talking about this “X” gender thing with a friend…

We know that boys should use the boy’s room, girls should use the girl’s room, boys who have switched to girls should use the girl’s room, and girls who have switched to boys should use the boy’s room!

BUT what about someone who has switched to an “X” gender?

Use either boy’s or girl’s room?  
Can’t use either and can only use “unisex restroom”?  
???

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**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140/23 "2016-07-19T20:07:15Z")

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Why do they list “gender” on your license? I just checked mine, and after chuckling about the completely incorrect height and weight listed, I did find an F down there on the bottom.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140/24 "2016-07-19T20:18:06Z")

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> [@spamforbrains](#):
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> Why do they list “gender” on your license? I just checked mine, and after chuckling about the completely incorrect height and weight listed, I did find an F down there on the bottom.

You flunked “gender”?  
😃

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**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-designation-change-request/760140/25 "2016-07-20T22:03:42Z")

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Remember when forms used to ask “sex” instead of “gender”, and we thought we were being funny by writing in “Yes”?

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