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).
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.