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I think he/she should leave the gender there but add an additional field "identified as gender" or something like this. I mean it should still be possible for me to categorize people by their physical gender/sex.

For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not.

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>For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not. Out of curiosity, can you explain why you would want something like that?

You would then need a sub-item for the medical history, one can well be of the "right" gender (female) to become pregnant but be infertile nonetheless, whether from birth, due to some accident or due to the effects of another medical condition doesn't really matter.

And that would probably be the kind of information that you shouldn't be allowed to know, record and store online.

The distinction that's often used is "Sex" vs "Gender" to distinguish between the two different usages. Sex is biological Male/Female whereas Gender is the social roles a person is performing.

>Sex is biological Male/Female whereas Gender is the social roles a person is performing.

Only in the framework of some fringe theories. Most people do not make that distinction because they believe that there isn't one.

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