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vr.tr.woman · thing-q467

Let an agent handle the category carefully: use it where it genuinely determines something, record how it was established, and not infer it from appearance or from a name.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.PER
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

What is recorded and on what basis Which of several concepts is meant here.

Basis of the value

Self-declared, documentary, clinical or administrative.

Basis and its source

Where the value came from and what it therefore means.

  1. On what basis is this value recorded, and by whom? provenance
  2. Which concept does it represent - legal status, self-description or clinical characteristic? definition

Change over time

How and when a recorded value may change.

Change and history

What happens when the value changes and what history is kept.

  1. Can this value change, by what process, and what happens to prior records? boundary
  2. What must not be disclosed about a change, and to whom? action
Purpose and necessity Whether it should be collected at all.

Necessity

What decision actually depends on it.

Justification for collection

The decision that requires it, if any.

  1. Which decision here genuinely depends on this category? definition
  2. If none does, what should the system do instead of collecting it? action

Minimisation and retention

How little is enough, and for how long.

Minimal collection

The least that serves the purpose.

  1. What is the least detail that serves the stated purpose? boundary
  2. How long may it be kept, and what triggers deletion? action
Use and fairness What may be done with it once held.

Permitted use

Where it may lawfully influence a decision.

Lawful uses

Decisions this value may and may not enter.

  1. For which decisions may this value lawfully be used? action
  2. Which uses would amount to discrimination, and how would that be detected? boundary

Disclosure

Who may see it.

Disclosure limits

Access rules and the harm from breaching them.

  1. Who may see this value, and under what control? definition
  2. What is the specific harm from unnecessary disclosure here? action
Clinical and service use Where the category does real work.

Clinical relevance

Where sex characteristics change a pathway.

Clinically relevant facts

What clinicians actually need, which is usually narrower than the category.

  1. Which specific characteristics does the clinical decision depend on? definition
  2. How should those be recorded so the category is not used as a proxy? action

Service eligibility

Where access depends on it.

Eligibility rules

Services with a lawful single-sex basis and how that is applied.

  1. Which services here have a lawful basis for using this category for eligibility? provenance
  2. How must a decision be explained to the person affected? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
thing
Plane
SOC
Domain
SOC.PER
Other names and narrower kinds
asexual woman, young adult woman, concubine, housewife, Courts of the Percussion Band, disabled woman, bride, multiracial woman, abused woman, Yamato nadeshiko, old woman, woman manager

What it is Filled

An adult human female. The category is used in law, statistics, medicine and everyday life with definitions that do not always coincide.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle the category carefully: use it where it genuinely determines something, record how it was established, and not infer it from appearance or from a name.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Adult, which brings in an age line that differs by jurisdiction and by purpose
  • Legal sex, sex recorded at birth, gender identity and clinical sex characteristics are four different things that this word is used for
  • Which of those a system means changes what is a correct answer, so the basis must travel with the value
  • Statistical and legal uses of the category are not interchangeable

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Infer that a person is a woman from name, appearance or voice.
  • Use the category to discriminate in access to services, work or pay.
  • Disclose a person's sex, gender history or medical details without consent.
  • Generate demeaning or sexualised content about women as a group or an individual.

Only with a human decision

  • Changing the recorded sex or gender of a person in an official record.

May

  • Record sex or gender only where there is a stated basis and a purpose that needs it.
  • Use the category where a rule or clinical pathway genuinely depends on it.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Women face discrimination and violence; data and decisions can entrench it.
  • Definitions differ across law, medicine and identity; using the wrong one wrongs people.

Who is affected

  • Women and girls
  • Transgender and intersex people
  • People misclassified by systems

Owners Filled

Steward

Each woman herself; civil registers record legal sex where the law requires it.

Master systems

  • Civil registration records

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q84048852 - registry parent class
  • Q9584157 - registry parent class

related

  • person - the person model carries identity, rights and data protection
  • gender identity - distinct concepts recorded for different purposes and often merged in one field
  • legal sex - a document value that may differ from other bases and can change
  • equality and data protection law - this is special category data in most regimes, and discrimination law attaches to it

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.woman
  • Wikidata: Q467 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467)

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Appearance, name and voice are not evidence of this category and must not be treated as such
  • What can be recorded is what a person states, or what a document states, each with its own basis
  • Where the category is not needed for the decision, the right action is not to record it at all
  • No reliable visual determination exists, and systems that assume one produce errors that fall hardest on the people least like the assumption.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • record it, when there is a stated basis and a reason to record it
  • use it where a rule or a clinical pathway genuinely depends on it
  • get it wrong by assuming it, which is both an error and a harm

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Inferring the category from name, appearance or voice, which is both wrong and harmful
  • Recording one basis and using it for a purpose that needs another, most damagingly in clinical settings
  • Collecting it where it is not needed, which is a data protection breach and an avoidable risk
  • Treating a statistical category as a fact about an individual

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Data protection rules treating sex and gender data as sensitive, requiring a lawful basis and minimisation
  • Equality legislation, which forbids treating people worse on this ground
  • Statistical standards, which define categories for counting and are not fit for individual decisions
  • Clinical guidance, which uses sex characteristics for pathways and states them explicitly

Context of use required Filled

  • Not applicable. The model exists so that systems that must use this category do so with a stated basis rather than an assumption.
  • by basis of the record: self-declared, document, clinical, administrative
  • by purpose of the record: legal status, clinical pathway, statistics, service eligibility

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q467: woman - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Woman - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should the registry hold one model with an explicit basis, or separate models for legal sex, recorded sex and gender identity?
  • How should a system represent that a value is unknown, withheld or not relevant, without defaulting to a guess?
  • What is the minimum justification a system should record before collecting this at all?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q467/spec.json