French operator SNCF has previously asked passengers to self-declare as ‘Monsieur’ or ‘Madame’.
The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that requiring rail passengers to declare a gender when buying a ticket is in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
As a form of respect.
That’s the excuse, anyway. Only SNCF’s marketing department knows if it was the real reason.
In Europe we don’t really have the toxic American gender war.