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Data Model for the Europass Digital Credentials Infrastructure
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[DMF] Adaption of the model for intersex people #30

Closed ghost closed 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Describe the organisation you represent The GWDG, an organization related to the University of Göttingen and the Max-Planck institute. Currently working together with other universities to implement a platform for international student mobility.

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Free text comment The edci_mdr_humansex.xsd contains two possible values for the human sex. However, in reality intersex people neither fit into these models.

As a solution to this, we in Germany have four different possible values for the Personenstand (vital record): male, female, diverse, empty value.

In order to align the data model with the national conventions, I suppose two different changes:

  1. Extend the edci_mdr_humansex.xsd enumeration by two more values.
  2. Remove all references to the human sex.

Personally I'd like to see the second change, as it would make the data model also more friendly to transgender people. Yes, this is very subjective, but in my opinion there's absolutely no need for the sex/gender in the data model. The combination from name and ID should provide enough relevant information.

anthonycamilleri commented 4 years ago

We rely on SEMIC vocabularies which are centralised at EU level for our concepts of 'sex' and 'gender'. I would recommend you raise this issue for their vocabularies. You can do so here: https://github.com/SEMICeu/Core-Person-Vocabulary