California is ready to recognize a third gender
Is there a reason why gender is so important to demographics&#x2F;government bodies in general? What would be the downsides of just not caring at all about this information, just like we don&#x27;t care at all about so many other pieces of information that people consider a core part of their identity?<p>Given how complicated the biological reality of it all is (see [0]), why try to model it at all? This seems like a case where we desperately try to make neat categories for the data to fit because we really like having neatly defined labels for everything, even though it just ends up more confusing in the end.<p>Curious to hear any thoughts on this.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intersex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intersex</a>