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Originally Posted by JoshBB

She says she is a woman, and the legal status clearly needs changing. We can't just stick our heads in the sand and ignore their clear gender identity for the sake of what's written on paper. You seem to care more for the logistics of things than the people actually involved. I recognise that we cannot assume a gender and that we must seek their legal recognition. But when it has been brought up that said document is wrong, we must correct it before putting someone into an environment where they will not be comfortable.

Well when it comes to a person stating outright they're one thing and their legal status is another it begs the question why they didn't care enough to have it changed? If they feel so strongly that when it comes to being placed into a situation where people are grouped by gender, why not help themselves by changing it and stop them being grouped with the wrong people?

Then if they decide they will allow cases like this through and transfer them you open a can of worms for other people (who won't all be genuine) contradicting their legal information and "saying" it's different without it having been changed.

A line needs to be drawn.

You then have the other problem of people who feel they identify as both or neither genders or an entirely different gender entirely (You know because male and female isn't enough?)? Are we opening a third prison for them? As Kizzy said earlier, is it one rule for one and another for the rest?