Special envoy to Amsterdam
The government of the Netherlands seems to have a plan for the future of mankind, if not for the future of the genre itself. In a letter sent to Parliament at the beginning of July, in a striking journalistic and political indifference, Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven, in charge of the portfolio of Emancipation, announced the disappearance of the mention of the feminine and the masculine on the identity cards Dutch “from 2024-2025” .
This is an "unnecessary" entry , says the minister, who wants "to limit as far as possible the unnecessary mention of sex . " "The Netherlands would not be the first" , Germany having paved the way, she argues. The Dutch will keep mention of their sex on their passports, to be in order with the requirements of the European Union, which has not yielded to the sirens of sexual indiscrimination.
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The Netherlands invokes the argument of the "red tape" that the obligation to mention would imply
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