However, on important ID documents such as driver's license or health card in most Canadian provinces, an X symbol will also appear, but the meanings on both sides are very different.

Chinese people know that some people will have an X symbol on their ID cards, while on important ID cards such as driver's license or health card in most provinces in Canada, an X symbol will also appear, but the meanings on both sides are very different. Why is this happening?

are all X on the certificate, and the meanings of China and Canada are different

CBC recently reported that Canadians in Asia can choose "male", "female" or "X" on all important documents, including birth and death certificates. However, for children under the age of 12, parents will make the choice on behalf of the child. The report pointed out that in this case, professional advice from doctors is needed.

Alberta becomes the fourth province in Canada, including the federal administrative region, providing non-binary (i.e., male or female) gender choice in official documents.

As early as June 2016, the Canadian government of Ontario Ontario announced that it would change the way information about gender is displayed on health cards and driver's licenses to ensure that trans and non-binary are treated fairly, reasonably and equally.

At the time, Marie-France Lalonde, the director of the Ontario Government's Relations and Consumer Services Department, said: "Many provincial citizens do not express their gender by men or women. As society's views on gender change, provincial governments must also adjust their adaptations in time. Some of the work is to think more about how and when to collect information about gender and how to use it."

is not just in local provinces. On August 24, 2017, the Canadian government announced that from August 31 that year, the gender mark "X" will be set up in the passports and other documents of neutral citizens in their country to indicate that their gender is neutral. The Canadian government said the move is intended to enable documents to "better reflect the gender of the licensee."

Why do Canada care about this from the country to the local government? Related to the multicultural culture advocated by Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Act stipulates that discrimination arises from factors such as race, religion, age, gender, and sexual orientation are prohibited.

Currently, many countries in the world have set up gender marks "X" on their ID documents, including Australia, New Zealand and Nepal and other countries.

Careful people will find that in China, many people also have an X symbol on their ID cards. What does this mean?

The X that often appears on Chinese resident ID cards will only appear in the ID number and is the last character in the ID number.

This is determined by the ID number generation rules. In China, the resident ID number is compiled according to national standards and consists of 18 digits: the first six digits are administrative division codes, the seventh to fourteenth digits are the date of birth codes, the 15th to 17th digits are the sequence codes, and the 18th digits are the verification codes. The verification code of the last number is calculated according to a unified formula. If someone's last number is 0-9, X will not appear, but if the last number is 10, it will cause the ID number to become 19 digits, which does not meet the standard, so X is used instead. In Roman numerals X also means 10. Although

is both X symbols, it appears on Chinese and Canadian documents differently and represents different meanings.

In Canadian residents’ passports and other documents, option X appears in the gender column, which means vague gender, and residents can choose. The main purpose of this is to eliminate gender discrimination. After all, according to the current mainstream view in Canada, there are six genders in humans, namely men, women, transgender people, and two sexual intentions.

. The X on the Chinese resident ID card appears in the ID card number and is the last number. It is just a result obtained according to certain rules. It is an identity code with no special meaning.

In order to eliminate discrimination, Canada has modified the national anthem

. The gender option appears on the resident's ID. It seems to be a small move, but it releases great kindness.

Canada is going further than you think on the road to eliminating gender discrimination. In addition to the Prime Minister's practice, he even revised the national anthem for this purpose.

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, who can be said to be the spokesperson for promoting the elimination of gender discrimination.In 2016, on behalf of the state and successive governments, he formally apologized to the gay ethnic group that had been discriminated against in the past, and started with this to promote a series of reforms to eliminate the discrimination against gay ethnic group from the outside world.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

There is a short story here. A comrade in Canada received a homophobic threat on Valentine's Day, "Let you lose your way." Trudeau chose to write a card to this comrade on White Valentine's Day, " Please know that the people who support you are far more than those haters, and I am personally one of the million supporters. "

In July 2017, Trudeau participated in a gay parade. He also became the first Canadian Prime Minister to participate in a gay parade.

At a public event in February this year, Trudeau also attracted attention because he was serious about a word involving gender.

At that time, Trudeau suddenly objected to an English word used by the woman while listening to a woman's remarks about the issue of volunteer service.

The word "mankind" in English means "human". In his opinion, the word "mankind" means "human" has the color of "sexism", because the word is composed of two components: "man" and "kind" and does not take into account women who also belong to humans.

When the woman said "mankind", Trudeau immediately interrupted her and corrected "mankind" for the word "peoplekind" that he thought was "gender more neutral" to show his importance to "gender equality".

Trudeau's move has received many likes and has also caused a lot of controversy. The well-known British media person, Pierce Morgan, , sarcastically said in the article, "Humans have been killed by this Canadian Prime Minister."

was promoted by the Prime Minister, and later government departments are also working hard to eliminate gender discrimination. And, start with the baby.

In 2017, an eight-month-old baby in Canada was awarded a health card without a gender issued by the authorities, becoming the world's first official certificate to indicate the gender is marked as the first baby in the world. A word "U" is written in the column of gender on the card, which means "undetermined" or "unassigned". The parent of the eight-month-old baby is himself a transgender person.

In order to pursue gender neutrality, Canada also changed the national anthem. In Canadian National Anthem , the original lyrics were sung like this: "Ah, Canada, my home, my country! Patriotism and sincerity, command your sons."

However, it should be noted that regarding the third gender selection issue, some experts pointed out that although the international civil aviation industry accepts a third gender selection other than men and women, if the travel destination country does not have laws to treat transgender people equally, travelers who choose the third gender on their passport may have trouble. In other words, it may be inconvenient for Canadians with gender registration to travel to China when they travel...

eliminates gender discrimination, and still has a long way to go

eliminates gender discrimination. It is now receiving more and more attention and has become a global topic. Especially in the workplace, last month, the Economist magazine pointed out that although developed countries have been trying to get rid of gender discrimination in the workplace, there are still many developing countries that still have obvious gender discrimination in labor issues. According to the World Bank, women in 104 countries around the world are still banned from certain jobs, with an estimated 270 million women not able to have the same job choices as men.

In addition to gender discrimination in the workplace, gender discrimination in thought will lead to more serious consequences.

Gender-friendly toilets appearing on the streets of Beijing.

For example: prefer boys over girls This bad habit was particularly obvious in ancient China. Since modern times, the concept of equality between men and women has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, but in some remote areas, it still remains. In India, the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls is still relatively serious. The internationally renowned medical journal The Lancet published an article last month that the latest report shows that in India, due to the patriarchal concept of favoring boys over girls, nearly 240,000 girls under five die every year due to negligent care from their parents. Last year, the popular Indian movie "Wrestle" in China! There are similar descriptions in "Dad".

, the shocking number, also reminds the world how important it is to eliminate gender discrimination.

The Canadian government's actions are worthy of praise. In November 2017, the World Economic Forum released a Global Gender Gap Report 2017. The report shows that Canada's gender equality index is quite among the 144 countries that have been evaluated around the world, ranking 14th. China's gender equality ranking has declined for nine consecutive years, ranking 100th among 144 countries, and China rose to 57th in 2008.

Last month, "Avengers 3: Infinity War" was officially released in the mainland. Some netizens posted that Tongliao Wanda Cinema broadcasts advertisements involving discrimination against women. Netizen "Winter Mushroom Cold Meow Meow" posted on Weibo saying, "I'm happy to see the Women's Federation Three early in the morning. While waiting outside, Wanda's radio said that women should not disturb your men when watching movies. Please eat popcorn and cola quietly. It is best not to affect your man's pilgrimage, and hope not to disturb your man's happy time. Please buy more popcorn and cola to block your woman's mouth."

Then, Tongliao Wanda Cinema posted an apology.

A few days ago, Reuters published an article saying that despite the booming development of China's technology industry, there is still a lot of gender discrimination in the industry, and it is not easy for women to succeed. A survey conducted by Silicon Valley Bank in 2018 found that Chinese startups will have at least one female founder or director compared to their counterparts in Western countries. But the proportion of women who hold high-level positions in high-tech companies remains low. The gender imbalance in Chinese technology companies has not been fundamentally solved, especially in primary and intermediate management positions. People's stereotypes about marital status, temperament and age make men's promotion advantage significantly higher than women.

To be honest, it is not that Canada is so avant-garde in eliminating gender discrimination, but that we are not doing enough.

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