Gender & sexuality

Legal records: biological sex or gender identity?

The test question and the possible answers

Biological sex alone should determine the gender recorded on official documents.

What's at stake: The debate pits the identity a person lives with against biological sex as an objective criterion for official records.

The left's argument

Gender identity isn't just about the body: official records should reflect the person.

The right's argument

Sex is a biological reality: official records should rest on objective criteria.

And you, where do you stand?

Answer 30 situations like this one and find out where you stand, topic by topic.

Take the test

More debates: gender & sexuality