Originally Posted by
studentff
I wonder if one of the reasons for including gender in the required (in-)Secure Flight (iSF) data from all passengers was to eventually avoid this situation in the future. If BPs were coded with iSF data and TDCs (or even WTMD/NoS moat dragons) were equipped with barcode scanners and scanned every BP, they could answer the gender question without asking it.
It's a whole lot of if's that would take a few years to materialize but someone with half a brain might have actually concocted some sort of plan. They're clearly moving in the direction of scanning BPs anyway under the guise of closing the (very real) fake-BP loophole.
Way down toward the bottom of my "things we need" list is one other person at the CP needing to examine my BP. The TDC is a long way from the MD at most AP's and would require another look close to the scanner. Or, from the "worst idea of the thread category," let's just have separate male and female scanner lines.