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The category is used in law, statistics, medicine and everyday life with definitions that do not always coincide.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable. The model exists so that systems that must use this category do so with a stated basis rather than an assumption.", "affordances": [ "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" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "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" ], "appearance": "No reliable visual determination exists, and systems that assume one produce errors that fall hardest on the people least like the assumption.", "visual_identification": [ "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" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "by basis of the record: self-declared, document, clinical, administrative", "by purpose of the record: legal status, clinical pathway, statistics, service eligibility" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "person", "why": "the person model carries identity, rights and data protection" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "gender identity", "why": "distinct concepts recorded for different purposes and often merged in one field" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "legal sex", "why": "a document value that may differ from other bases and can change" }, { "relation": "regulated by", "target": "equality and data protection law", "why": "this is special category data in most regimes, and discrimination law attaches to it" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "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" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "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" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "what-is-recorded", "name": "What is recorded and on what basis", "description": "Which of several concepts is meant here.", "rationale": "One word is used for several distinct things, and a value without its basis cannot be used safely for anything.", "layers": [ { "id": "basis", "name": "Basis of the value", "description": "Self-declared, documentary, clinical or administrative.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-finding", "name": "Basis and its source", "description": "Where the value came from and what it therefore means.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what basis is this value recorded, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which concept does it represent - legal status, self-description or clinical characteristic?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "change", "name": "Change over time", "description": "How and when a recorded value may change.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-finding", "name": "Change and history", "description": "What happens when the value changes and what history is kept.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can this value change, by what process, and what happens to prior records?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What must not be disclosed about a change, and to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "purpose-and-necessity", "name": "Purpose and necessity", "description": "Whether it should be collected at all.", "rationale": "Most systems collect this by habit; the model should make the burden of justification explicit before anything else.", "layers": [ { "id": "necessity", "name": "Necessity", "description": "What decision actually depends on it.", "findings": [ { "id": "necessity-finding", "name": "Justification for collection", "description": "The decision that requires it, if any.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which decision here genuinely depends on this category?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "If none does, what should the system do instead of collecting it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "minimisation", "name": "Minimisation and retention", "description": "How little is enough, and for how long.", "findings": [ { "id": "minimisation-finding", "name": "Minimal collection", "description": "The least that serves the purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the least detail that serves the stated purpose?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How long may it be kept, and what triggers deletion?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-fairness", "name": "Use and fairness", "description": "What may be done with it once held.", "rationale": "This is a protected ground almost everywhere, so its use is constrained in ways that ordinary attributes are not.", "layers": [ { "id": "permitted-use", "name": "Permitted use", "description": "Where it may lawfully influence a decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-use-finding", "name": "Lawful uses", "description": "Decisions this value may and may not enter.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which decisions may this value lawfully be used?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which uses would amount to discrimination, and how would that be detected?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disclosure", "name": "Disclosure", "description": "Who may see it.", "findings": [ { "id": "disclosure-finding", "name": "Disclosure limits", "description": "Access rules and the harm from breaching them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may see this value, and under what control?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What is the specific harm from unnecessary disclosure here?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical-and-service-use", "name": "Clinical and service use", "description": "Where the category does real work.", "rationale": "There are settings where a correct answer materially changes care, and those are exactly the settings where using the wrong basis is dangerous.", "layers": [ { "id": "clinical", "name": "Clinical relevance", "description": "Where sex characteristics change a pathway.", "findings": [ { "id": "clinical-finding", "name": "Clinically relevant facts", "description": "What clinicians actually need, which is usually narrower than the category.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specific characteristics does the clinical decision depend on?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How should those be recorded so the category is not used as a proxy?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "eligibility", "name": "Service eligibility", "description": "Where access depends on it.", "findings": [ { "id": "eligibility-finding", "name": "Eligibility rules", "description": "Services with a lawful single-sex basis and how that is applied.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which services here have a lawful basis for using this category for eligibility?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How must a decision be explained to the person affected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "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?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a woman, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "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.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: 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.", "389 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 271 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a woman, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "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" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 271 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 389 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one woman from another, and a woman from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a woman sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a woman from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a woman is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a woman is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a woman moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a woman passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a woman between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a woman, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a woman is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a woman.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a woman and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a woman, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a woman and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a woman sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as woman.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does woman require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses woman, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What woman actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define woman, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as woman, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a woman came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a woman and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a woman is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a woman, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a woman, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a woman is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }