Um. Why precisely should people's gender/sex/sexuality/sexual identity/... be recorded by the government apart from pure statistical exercises like the census?
I don't have to record my eye colour, different hair curling patterns or pigmentation over different parts of my body, etc in most interactions because these details are trivial, irrelevant and mostly unnecessary for the provision of many government services. The same is true of these other categories; they are socially important, often make up part of an individual's personal identity, but should not - must not! - be a criteria for services such as Centrelink support or taxation requirements etc.
Let's begin by asking why precisely such a registration is necessary in each and every case. Remove it unless necessary, and then begin asking if it is necessary perhaps which categories need to be identified?
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I don't have to record my eye colour, different hair curling patterns or pigmentation over different parts of my body, etc in most interactions because these details are trivial, irrelevant and mostly unnecessary for the provision of many government services. The same is true of these other categories; they are socially important, often make up part of an individual's personal identity, but should not - must not! - be a criteria for services such as Centrelink support or taxation requirements etc.
Let's begin by asking why precisely such a registration is necessary in each and every case. Remove it unless necessary, and then begin asking if it is necessary perhaps which categories need to be identified?