What next – passports in which including our name and/or photograph is optional?
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February 3, 2015 at 2:54pm
This is so unbelievable.
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http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/49185/male_female_or_x_the_new_gender_options_on_identification_documents#.VNDS1yzLKp4
Not declaring gender doesn’t make sense. We should have a more inclusive options for gender, yes, but not an “X” option.
In fact, I’m not sure if the “X” option isn’t offensive. So you’re either male, female or “need not apply”?
This just shows how this government doesn’t have the balls to be the open-minded liberals they said they would be. Liberals would have no qualms putting “transgender”, for instance, as an option on passports.
But the chauvinistic and sexist individuals in government today can’t bring themselves to be ok with actually having it in writing.
So they go with what makes them feel more comfortable, because God forbid they have to make nice with the “men who dress up like women”.
I believe it’s called cognitive dissonance.
Their inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men
I would assume that most people use passports to travel. Would one want to list one’s gender as X when so many countries still have severe laws related to gender other than traditional male or female?
Terra Nova. Six hats.
What one man can invent, another can discover.
And this one’s for Jozef: would you please pass the word that ideologies are not dead. Thanks. They’re all left-wing now so they won’t listen.
Kollox trasparenti hi !
Those not specifying their gender will certainly be refused entry to the UK, US, and other normal countries.
What madness, why on earth would civilised countries refused entry?
I will opt for the X then. I don’t want to risk being sold off for $35 should IS get hold of Malta.
On second thoughts, can I say I am male and not female, just to be on the safe side?
Could X stand for non-entity like Gays ?
This feels like a non-issue. Why not just follow Germany’s example and not display gender on the passport?
Only on the German ID card the gender is not displayed. The passport still has it.
Who in his or her right mind would opt for this gross invasion of privacy by declaring that he or she is X, rather than a male or female? Can you imagine presenting such a passport when entering a homophobic country such as the Russian Federation?
The sad thing is that something like this is considered to be a step in the right direction and proof positive what a progressive prime minister Muscat is.
It is truly tragic that in less than two years we have come to this.
Or better gender unknown. On a different note, UK is considering three-parent baby too.
Apples and oranges.
Please don’t get issues mixed up. The three-parent baby law is not a sop to polygamists, threesomes or alternative types. It has a very sound scientific basis: to prevent defective mitochondria being passed on from mother to child. The baby will get 0.1% DNA of another woman.
The third woman will most probably have no interest in being a mother to the child but will simply be contributing to a baby’s health, in the same way that people donate blood for others to survive. I don’t even see why this is controversial and I hope that the law is adopted by other countries soon.
This passport thing is completely different. A passport has one purpose only: to grant you safe passage and easy access wherever you happen to be. It’s not a document to assert your identity with or play out your gender identity angst on.
It should be clear and uncomplicated. The last thing you want when you are in some godforsaken backwater of an airport is to find yourself engaging in a discussion with an airport/security official about your gender identity issues.
I think you need to specify that the 3-parent baby law applies to IVF babies where there are specific risks of congenital disorders. Otherwise imagination will run wild.
Is this legal and acceptable by international standards?
Can we have an expert comment on this fact.
Yes it is. Other countries have done. What one man can invent, another can discover, remember? Joseph Muscat is just riding the wave of Europe-wide social engineering ideas promulgated by the intellectual left. That’s how he turned the party into a movement. And that’s how he got the votes of all the liberal intellectuals and assorted hangers-on.
When a party is out of options and losing badly, as Labour was until 2009-ish, the only way forward, and the fastest way to electoral victory is to fight a series of battles on personal issues and frame them as a fight for liberty. This is exactly what Labour are doing, and this is exactly how our genius pundits are lapping it up.
Look, and I wish those jokers at Stamperija would take notice: it is no coincidence that Malta’s LGBT movement has become the sort of armed wing of Joseph Muscat. He directs from on high, and they are his footsoldiers. There are A LOT of LGBT ideologues who are very close to various think-tanks and government agencies. I’m not saying they dictate policy, for they don’t need to – the government sees to it that they are kept happy with one revolutionary new law after another.
This plugs Joseph Muscat’s parochial Labour into a much wider (Europe- or worldwide) movement. It gives him international legitimacy. Why do you think Hollande supported Muscat? And why do you think the Greek radical don’t have any time at all for Muscat?
The Nationalists foolishly ride along with this by adopting a left-wing liberal position on international issues (Putin, US-EU trade ties, the economic crisis, shale gas) and thus deprive themselves of the support of the international opponents of Muscat’s left-wing liberal market persona.
You do have the patience.
This is so we can entice Wolverine, Magneto, Cyclops, Mystique, Prof. Xavier et al, to be able to obtain a Maltese passport.
Ma nafx jekk ghandix nidhaq jew nibki.
Kemm jiflah jwaqqaghna aktar ghan-n…. dan il-gvern?
Just like voting.
What one declares as a form of identification is irrelevant as the embarkation officer checks only the photo – if your face fits the photo you pass, otherwise you cannot. He cannot ask you to undo your fly or lift your skirt as this may be misleading. Time for stricter gate controls.
Whilst Malta is ‘discussing’ market stalls one cannot help realise what a waste of time such penny dangling is. What would Maltese do if issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement existed for Malta?
I think the authorities at the border control have the right to esquire about the gender, if it is not stated in the passport.
What a strange thing to say. Why would they have such a right?
The gender of the person is a requisite in the passport.
The passport category is sex, not gender.
And being Maltese I would say, “Ma tridx ninzghalek il-qalziet hux?”
There are obvious concrete reasons why your name and photograph need to be presented and checked at an airport, but your gender? Who cares.
The category is sex, not gender. Muscat’s playing with words.
To be honest, I’m against unnecessary gender identification. All you need is a photo/name. That’s it.
My issue with it is that there are possibilities of harassment if you were to choose the ‘x’ option.
Right. So now we can do away with gender quotas, can’t we, Joseph?
Gender quotas may be beneficial if the right minded people are pushed forward retaining the right minded ones already there. While quotas may help in initiating changes, keeping them there for the sake of statistics is a sham. Meritocracy goes counter to quotas, as it should, but then the real merits for the job have to be job related not made to fit with external motivations aside from the job requirements. This applies in all spheres of life, from the home to the company to political parties and public office. Giving a person a job based on gender quotas is a step backward. Let the more meritorious do the work they are more capable of doing, thus while the husband is a chef and may rule the kitchen healthily feeding the family, the wife is a teacher and rules the study, healthily mentally feeding the family.
Will an identity document that does not declare the sex of the holder be accepted by the immigration officers of other countries?
No sex. We’re Maltese.