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-----Original Message-----
From: Scout Barbour-Evans [mailto:[FOI #3743 email]]
Sent: Friday, 11 March 2016 4:58 p.m.
To: Enquiries National
Subject: Official Information Act request - Plans to Acknowledge Non-Binary Gender

Kia ora Ministry of Education,

I am making this Official Information Act request to ask whether the Ministry of Education 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 MOE 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 services can have their records updated to reflect their gender.

Yours faithfully,

Scout Barbour-Evans

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Please see attached your OIA Response 988129

 

 

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