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Here I am going to descend into controversy. I believe that sex is an intrinsic feature of every person, which is determined at conception and observed at birth. I do not believe that it can change over a person’s lifetime. My digital record shows that I am male. This also appears on my passport and is encoded into my driver’s licence. But neither the Passport Office nor the driving licence authority can reliably attest that I really am male. This is because, over the past decades, these agencies have allowed people to change their recorded sex.