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Ban gender identity from government documents and decision-making

Gender identity is the gender roles and stereotypes that a person prefers or identifies with. Learn more here: https://tinyurl.com/y5sxr9am

The two most commonly used measures of gender roles are the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) and the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Both ask individuals to indicate the extent to which they can be characterized in terms of various adjectives or attributes. Here are some real examples: Do you cry very easily? Are you very submissive? Rate how home oriented you are. Rate how gentle you are.

Both tools determined which adjectives and attributes to use to define gender identity in part by asking members of each sex which attributes they found desirable in the opposite sex. The tools used to determine who should be called a woman define someone's womanhood based on whether or not she has traits that groups of college-aged men in the 70s said they found desirable. Other studies use other measures of gender identity, like the TransYouth Research Project, which determines whether someone is a boy or a girl by having experimenters rate how "girly" or "masculine" their outfits are.

The validity of gender identity rests entirely on gender roles and stereotypes. That's obvious without even going through these definitions. Aside from sex, there is nothing to distinguish men from women other than gender roles and stereotypes. Validating and enforcing gender identity by including it on government documents (and forcing those who do not have a gender identity to pick one on such documents), fining or otherwise penalizing people for misgendering others (i.e. exercising their free speech), and deciding that bathrooms and sports teams should be divided based on gender identity (despite the fact that gender identity by any definition is completely irrelevant to bathroom use and sports, while sex is relevant to both), amounts to validating and enforcing gender roles and stereotypes, which is a violation of fundamental human rights.