The number on your driving licence reveals a lot about you
Your driving licence number is one of those strings of digits and letters through which the government identifies you. Like a passport or National Insurance number, for many of us, it is just another random code to remember - but those 16 characters are anything but random.
Men looking at their driving licence might spot that some of the numbers that follow are the same as their date of birth but in a scrambled order. However, women might not be able to spot this so easily as the DVLA adds a "gender marker" to their licence number.This section of the 16-character code after the first five letters of your surname splits the DD/MM/YY format into a scrambled Y/MM/DD/Y layout, and adds a five onto the month of your birth if you are a woman.
This is the only indication of gender that is part of your driving licence by default, though your title of address could also indicate this. Trans women who want to have their identity recognised on their licence in the same way can also apply to have this gender marker on their licence number changed.
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