Update Gender Identity and Sex patterns #1994
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Updates to background section to include use cases, preview of sex. Added state document reference.
More consistency body text with gender identity
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- Add info on collecting general demographic information - Suggest explanatory helper text - Explain when we use specific terms related to sex
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Changed user => person, changed "recommended...in recommendations to advocated for....in recommendations. Added safety to gender identify (was already in sex).
jonadecker
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Feb 2, 2023
We already call out the controlled vocabulary in the DO item, so we don't need to repeat it from the DON'T perspective. Add "legal sex" to the DO item to cover both cases. Add hint text to explain how `X` is used.
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jonadecker
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I think this addition and removing the Don't really clarifies things @thisisdano
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Summary
This pull request expands and improves on our Gender Identity and Sex patterns. We've made updates to our pattern guidance and our pattern previews to help provide more practical use cases and up-to-date guidance for these patterns.
Details
We've included information about and references to the "Recommendations on the best practices for the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data on federal statistical surveys" (PDF; 440 KB) that the White House released in January 2023.
We've updated the guidance to focus on the most common use case for collecting sex data: matching documents for identity proofing. This also includes updates to the following items:
Xoption for both gender identity and sex.Finally, we've added guidance around using clarity and transparency to assure the trust and safety of users. This also includes the following guidance:
Problem statement
We have an opportunity to update this pattern with the newest guidance from the White House and SME feedback. We need to keep improving these sensitive and evolving patterns to be as practical, accurate, and respectful as possible: to update the pattern guidance and preview to better cover document matching, give more comprehensive context around how other government projects are approaching these patterns, discuss how birth certificate sex data can vary from state to state, and to be sure we cover trust and safety for individuals entering gender identity and sex data.
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