ISO/IEC 5218:2022本文件规定了用于信息交换的人类性别的统一表示。其目的是: -减少记录和/或格式化性别表示和传输相应数据所需的时间； -提高互换的清晰度和准确性； -尽量减少沟通性别代表性所需的人为干预；和 ——降低成本。 本文档没有规定在其实现中使用的文件序列、存储介质、编程语言或信息处理的其他特征。 本文档满足大多数需要对人类性别进行编码的应用程序的要求。它没有提供在特定的医学和科学应用中或在需要对人类以外的性别信息进行编码的应用中可能需要的性别编码。它也没有提供其他应用中可能需要的人类性别身份的代码。 本文件并不取代根据各种语言中性别名称的代码设计的性别编码国家标准（例如，在英语中“M”代表“男性”，“F”代表“女性”）。它提供了一个独立于语言衍生代码的数字代码，因此旨在为包含人类性别数据元素的信息的国际交换提供一个共同的基础。

ISO/IEC 5218:2022 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-derived codes and as such is intended to provide a common basis for the international exchange of information containing human sex data elements.