I love the EU. For all their shortcomings they are a bastion of liberalism in a world gone mad.
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I like the result but the process is illiberal.
Aside from my gripes about how confusing the GDPR is relying on it to say
> The Iranian applicant’s personal history also sheds light on the EU regulation on personal data (better known under the acronym ‘GDPR’), which has been in force since May 25, 2018. According to the Luxembourg judges, **the regulation “must be interpreted as requiring a national authority responsible for keeping a public register to rectify the personal data relating to the gender identity of a natural person** where those data are inaccurate, within the meaning of that regulation.” From a legal point of view, in exercising this competence, states must nevertheless comply with Union law, including the GDPR.
A core tenets of democracy means things should be democratic and this isn’t that. I could get behind the European Parliament overriding national legislatures because they are democratic but this isn’t that (and I do worry than with time this will foment a problem within the EU).
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I love the EU. For all their shortcomings they are a bastion of liberalism in a world gone mad.
I like the result but the process is illiberal.
Aside from my gripes about how confusing the GDPR is relying on it to say
> The Iranian applicant’s personal history also sheds light on the EU regulation on personal data (better known under the acronym ‘GDPR’), which has been in force since May 25, 2018. According to the Luxembourg judges, **the regulation “must be interpreted as requiring a national authority responsible for keeping a public register to rectify the personal data relating to the gender identity of a natural person** where those data are inaccurate, within the meaning of that regulation.” From a legal point of view, in exercising this competence, states must nevertheless comply with Union law, including the GDPR.
is simply odd when the GPDR linked [here](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj) has zero instances per ctrl f of the words gender, male, female, man, or woman.
A core tenets of democracy means things should be democratic and this isn’t that. I could get behind the European Parliament overriding national legislatures because they are democratic but this isn’t that (and I do worry than with time this will foment a problem within the EU).