Hi Scout

I have forwarded your email to the department dealing with requests under the Official Information Act.

C

Call Centre Helpdesk
Corporate Services
New Zealand Qualifications Authority

DDI: +64 4 463 3000
Fax: +64 4 463 3112
Email: [NZQA request email]
Web: http://www.nzqa.govt.nz

>>> Scout Barbour-Evans <[OIA #3742 email]> 11/03/2016 4:37 PM >>>
Kia ora New Zealand Qualifications Authority,

I am making this Official Information Act request to ask whether NZQA has any plans to acknowledge non-binary gender in your databases.

Non-binary gender is recognized by some government departments yet not by others, and departments such as the Department of Internal Affairs have made strides to recognize our community, yet other departments seem to have not.

I would like to know
1. When NZQA intends to recognize non-binary gender, with a gender marker of "X" instead of M/F
2. If these systems are already in place, how users of your service can have their records updated to reflect their gender.

Yours faithfully,

Scout Barbour-Evans

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Dear Scout
Thank you for your request of 11 March 2016, under the Official
Information Act for the following information
1. When NZQA intends to recognize non-binary gender, with a gender marker
of "X" instead of M/F
2. If these systems are already in place, how users of your service can
have their records updated to reflect their gender.
You can expect to receive a response to your request on or before 12 April
2016.  You will be contacted again if there is a likelihood that this
timeframe cannot be met.
For any enquiries about your request, please email
[1][email address].
If you are dissatisfied with our response, you have the right, under
section 28(3) of the Official Information Act 1982, to lodge a complaint
with the Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington.
Yours sincerely

Elizabeth Templeton
Senior Advisor
Chief Executive and Ministerial Services
New Zealand Qualifications Authority
 
DDI: 04 463 3339
 
>>> Scout Barbour-Evans <[FOI #3742 email]>
11/03/2016 4:37 PM >>>
Kia ora New Zealand Qualifications Authority,

I am making this Official Information Act request to ask whether NZQA has
any plans to acknowledge non-binary gender in your databases.

Non-binary gender is recognized by some government departments yet not by
others, and departments such as the Department of Internal Affairs have
made strides to recognize our community, yet other departments seem to
have not.

I would like to know
1. When NZQA intends to recognize non-binary gender, with a gender marker
of "X" instead of M/F
2. If these systems are already in place, how users of your service can
have their records updated to reflect their gender.

Yours faithfully,

Scout Barbour-Evans

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Dear Scout Barbour-Evans

Please find below the response to your request. I have also attached the
signed response as a pdf.

 

 

Official Information Act request on acknowledging non-binary gender
identify

 

Thank you for your request of 11 March 2016 under the Official Information
Act 1982, asking whether NZQA has any plans to acknowledge non-binary
gender on its databases. You have requested:

 

* When NZQA intends to recognise non-binary gender, with a gender marker
of “X” instead of M/F.

* If these systems are already in place, how users of [our] service can
have their records updated to reflect their gender.

 

I understand that you have made the same request of the Ministry of
Education. The student personal data NZQA holds aligns to the requirements
set by the Ministry of Education for student management systems, ENRO, and
the National Student Index. We appreciate that these systems do not
currently recognise diversity of gender identity.

 

The Ministry of Education is leading the work, with NZQA and other
education agencies, on implementation of the Statistics New Zealand
standard on gender identity.

 

NZQA is committed to working closely with the Ministry of Education to
ensure that the personal details that it requires schools to collect
provides for the safe learning experience of students across the gender
identity spectrum.

 

If you require further assistance or believe we have misinterpreted your
request, please contact Elizabeth Templeton, Senior Advisor in the Office
of the Chief Executive, email [1][email address] or
telephone (04) 463 3339.

 

If you are dissatisfied with our response, you have the right, under
section 28(3) of the Official Information Act 1982, to lodge a complaint
with the Office of the Ombudsmen, PO Box 10152, Wellington.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

Karen Poutasi (Dr)

Chief Executive

Team Mailbox- NZQA Ministerials

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