WHETHER you identify as male or female is something Queenslanders no longer have to put on their physical licences after the information was dropped from the ID card in 2016.

In a leaked document seen by the Courier Mail, the decision, which also removed height off the licence, implied the change came after complaints from the LGBTQI community.

“TMR has received complaints and suggestions from members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community about displaying gender/sex (M or F) on TMR cards,” the leaked document said.

The leaked document also claimed personal information such as a person’s hair and eye colour was also scrubbed because it could be potentially “perceived as discriminatory”.

But a government spokesman told news.com.au that the change came down to a number of reasons — a lot of which had to do with advancements in technology.

The spokesman said the main reasons for the change, which weren’t identified in the TMR document, were amendments to federal sex discrimination laws and technological advancements around facial recognition.

“They should have been (included in the document) and we’ve asked that this additional information be included.”

Plenty of Queenslanders are up in arms over the changes.

On Facebook, one man slammed the amendments, “What a croc,” he wrote.

Another person commented, “Australia is becoming a joke. Too many idiots making decisions for us normal Aussies.”

One man suggested the 15-month old change meant men and women should now be housed in the same prisons.

“Now that there is no male or female on Qld licences, does that mean men and women crims will be housed in the same gaol???”

Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington also said the 2016 changes were “madness”.

“It is offensive to taxpayers that their hard-earned money has been wasted on this rubbish,” she told the Courier Mail.

Despite the backlash, the government spokesman said information about a person’s physical appearance is still recorded when they apply for a licence in Queensland — and all of it can easily be accessed by police if drivers are ever pulled over.

“Improvements in technology means information that identifies an individual can be readily accessed in other ways.

“For example, police have 24-7 access to this information, including the digital photograph as it appears on the licence, through QLite tablet devices,” he said.

Various states no longer record any details other than address, name and date of birth on physical licence cards.

South Australia has even gone completely digital with their licences, launching the smartphone app in October 2017.

“I’m delighted South Australians will be the first in the country to benefit from a statewide rollout of this leading technology — which will not only streamline licensing services but offer vastly heightened security when it comes to verifying licences,” the state’s police minister Chris Picton said at the time.