Gender? (Y/N)

[Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca>]

I was all set to make a joke about how gender could only be indeterminate in Oz.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14926598

However, it does raise a very interesting issue.  The reason gender is on the passport is for (partial) verification of 
identity: is this person a man or a woman, and does that match what is listed on the passport.  That is getting harder 
to determine these days, so is gender no longer of any use for authentication?

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