Existing Wording \\Practitioner.gender

Comments
Is there compelling evidence that most applications record the gender for a practitioner? This is unheard of in Canada, no system that I have worked with (the majority of Provider registries within Canada) recorded gender. Is Canada the exception in recording Practitioner information? (yes I know both comments look similar, Canada tracks neither birthdate nor gender in their practitioner registries)

Grahame's Comments
there are countries where this MATTERS. And other countries that track it anyway. But I have no strong opinion