• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I get that they check the photo, I’m saying that if they’re not going to allow you to express your real gender in a passport, they’re almost certainly not going to allow you to express it in your passport photo.

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      7 hours ago

      The scanners check around ~100 data points like

      Distance between the eyes

      Width of the nose

      Depth of the eye sockets

      Shape of the cheekbones

      Length of the jaw line

      presumably with a bunch of failsafes and a tolerance threshold for acceptability. Something like facial hair, makeup, glasses, haircut won’t even blip it.