AS countries around the world debate the vexed issue of how to reflect gender in official documents, the Netherlands is looking at a more radical solution – doing away with it altogether.
The proposal to remove the category from Dutch identity cards by 2025 came in a letter to parliament this month and is part of a government plan to “limit unnecessary sex registration where possible”.
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