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I second that it makes sense to pull the gender from LSI.GN, just like the first and last name are pulled from the legal table. The student's preferred name and gender identity remain in the STU fields, and those are what is visible to teachers and students/parents in the portal (and what prints on school reports). However, it is the legal values that should be reported to CALPADS. I'm assuming that CALPADS does not publicly release such PII for a particular school/district. This avoid errors if a student changes districts and their previous legal gender is what is recorded in CALPADS. I also found it can create an additional SSID (resulting in a multiple ID error) since the CALPADS system does not appear to match students of different genders.
I agree with Dinah that there needs to be a better way for the CDE to recognize and count trans and binary students. I'm just not sure that reporting the chosen gender successfully captures that (or is worth the issues it creates). The non-binary gender option, while well intentioned, does not serve fully trans kids well. They don't identify as non-binary, but as the other gender. And choosing non-binary potentially "outs" them. CDE needs to capture both legal and preferred gender.