It’s a factor of identity verification. Like if you’ve stolen a passport from someone with a name that’s not generally considered masculine or feminine, it helps raise a flag when it doesn’t seem to match the person holding it.
Making fraudulent passports used to be easier. You see old movies with people replacing the photos. If you do that on a passport for Michael Smith, male, but you’re apparently a woman, it’s a lot harder to argue than just saying “yeah my parents gave me a boy’s name”.
It’s a factor of identity verification. Like if you’ve stolen a passport from someone with a name that’s not generally considered masculine or feminine, it helps raise a flag when it doesn’t seem to match the person holding it.
Making fraudulent passports used to be easier. You see old movies with people replacing the photos. If you do that on a passport for Michael Smith, male, but you’re apparently a woman, it’s a lot harder to argue than just saying “yeah my parents gave me a boy’s name”.
but that is based on a flawed premise: that there exists a hard line between masculine names and feminine names.
how does it work with cultures where the distinction between tradtional masculine and feminine names isn’t that well defined?
what if the name is one of these examples: Abidemi Lubanzi, Onyekachi Olamide, Firdaus Khan, Jasleen Singh, Shakti Gupta?
how will this gender flag work there?