1 Scope
This document specifies a uniform representation of human sexes for the interchange
of information. It is intended to:
— reduce the time required to record and/or format the representation of sexes and transmit
the corresponding data;
— improve clarity and accuracy of interchange;
— minimize the amount of human intervention required for communicating the representation
of sexes; and
— reduce costs.
This document does not prescribe file sequences, storage media, programming languages,
or other features of information processing to be used in its implementation.
This document meets the requirements of most applications that need to code human
sexes. It does not provide codes for sexes that can be required in specific medical
and scientific applications or in applications that need to code sex information other
than for human beings. It also does not provide codes for human gender identities
that can be required in other applications.
This document does not supplant national standards for coding sexes that are designed
based upon codes derived from names of sexes in the various languages (for example
“M” for “male” and “F” for “female” in the English language). It provides a numeric
code that is independent of language-deri...
BS ISO/IEC 5218:2022 history
2022BS ISO/IEC 5218:2022 Information technology - Codes for the representation of human sexes
2004BS ISO/IEC 5218:2004 Information technology - Codes for the representation of human sexes