French operator SNCF has previously asked passengers to self-declare as 'Monsieur' or 'Madame'.

French operator SNCF has previously asked passengers to self-declare as ‘Monsieur’ or ‘Madame’.

The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that requiring rail passengers to declare a gender when buying a ticket is in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    5 months ago

    Is this like the first step towards having gender-specific train cars? Does France have an issue with harassment on trains like some other countries/cultures? Or are they just being weird about gender?

    • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I think it’s the opposite of that. They stopped asking about the gender of the passengers.

        • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Probably a mixture of tradition/inertia and old-fashioned identification ideas.

        • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Asking whether they write sir or madam on the ticket as a form of politeness. Sure it helps collecting statistics too.

          Conservative are weird, the will be fine with asking sir or madam, but would throw a tantrum if you ask them a pronoum which is exactly the same question

          • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            5 months ago

            Sure, but is that a reason to make it mandatory? If someone does not want to share the information, then saying “non, we must be polite to you!” doesn’t make a lot of sense.

            • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              Probably whoever drafted the requirements for the software team just didn’t think to add a third option, and the software team didn’t want to add additional requirements.

            • gift_of_gab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              5 months ago

              I wanted to see if you were the same name I remember posting similar eye-roll inducing things in the past but, you know:

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              • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
                01·
                5 months ago

                Bonjour Monsieur! (Please don’t sue me 😱)

                That’s ok, sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong, I tried to block many of the more extreme left wing progressive instances on this website (there is a lot) but it didn’t let me, hopefully in a future patch I can block all lgtbq++ premium content and leave it just for you guys to read and comment on, then you won’t have to suffer with me like I do you :(

                Thanks again for letting me know you dislike my viewpoints, this means very little to me though as I’m aware that you dislike my viewpoints, you may not believe this but I disagree with some of your viewpoints as well! I just don’t go around literally posting that I’m rolling my eyes as you guys seem to do quite often?