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-'''Gender markers''' are data points that show the gender of a person on a document (such as passport, driver's license, insurance card, birth certificate, etc) or in a computer system (such as an employee database, electronic health record, etc). Sometimes this data point is called "[[Sex]]" instead of "Gender".
+'''Gender markers''' are data points that show the gender of a person on a document (such as passport, driver's license, insurance card, birth certificate, etc) or in a computer system (such as an employee database, electronic health record, etc). Sometimes this data point is called "[[Sex]]" instead of "Gender", but depending on the applicable laws the marker might be able to be changed without the person having surgically changed their sexual organs.
 The standard common gender markers are M for [[male]] and F for [[female]]. Other gender markers (which are not always available) include U for unspecified, O for [[other]], E for [[eunuch]]<ref name="FoggDavis">{{Cite web |title=Let’s delete sex-identity from birth certificates |last=Fogg Davis |first=Heath |work=Aeon |date=31 May 2017 |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-delete-sex-identity-from-birth-certificates |quote=Heath Fogg Davis }}</ref>, and X for a nonbinary or [[intersex]] person (although many intersex people have a [[gender identity]] of binary man/woman).