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.

The passport category is sex, not gender.

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.

Only on the German ID card the gender is not displayed. The passport still has it.

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.

The gender of the person is a requisite in the passport.