Labour’s digital ID plans have been plagued with a fresh bout of criticism with new concerns that users can select the gender of their choosing on the legal document.

Speaking to GB News stars Miriam Cates and Alex Armstrong, Campaign Director of Sex Matters Fiona McAnena sounded the alarm over Labour’s scheme – which the Government claims will help curb illegal migration.

The cards could let individuals select their preferred gender instead of their biological sex, women’s rights campaigners have warned.

“This is something that’s been going on in the background for a while”, Ms McAnena warned.

“We’ve been raising the alarm about the problem, which is that people think they can trust Government data sources and they can’t, because some of that data has been messed up for years,” Ms McAnena told the presenters.

She continued: “That’s the real issue here. Whether you like digital ID or you don’t, it is not reliable because people like the passport office will let you change the sex marker on your ID just by sending them a letter.”

The campaigner further dubbed NHS healthcare records “even more of a mess”, explaining how some systems have three different fields to record sex.

“How is the system supposed to make sense of all that?”

“Yet, if a Government identity system presents a fact that says you’re a man or you’re a woman, people are going to believe that. They’re going to have to rely on it.

“There’s a huge mess here with the data that needs to be sorted out before the Government can even think about issuing Digital IDs.”

The campaigners have warned that such a system could culminate in a number of different consequences for women.

For instance, senior female patients could be bathed by a biological man who simply holds an ID saying that he is a female.

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Additionally, they have claimed that sex offenders could change their gender to hide their identity, posing a risk to society.

Giving her own warning, Ms McAnena said that such a system could allow biological men into the changing rooms of women – leaving young girls “confronted” with someone “who should not be there”.

Gyms, which often operate 24/7, grant access to men’s or women’s changing rooms based on the way in which you register when signing up.

The director explained that a Government-backed identity app can already be used on mobile phones, claiming to be either male or female.

The individuals in question need only contact the passport office to say that they live as a different gender to the sex they were assigned at birth and ask to change their passport.

“They don’t even know how many people have done that. It could be 50,000. It could be 100,000,” she warned.

A Government spokesman said: “The new digital ID system will be designed to ensure everyone who has a right to work in the UK can prove it easily and securely.

“Other forms of ID may still be required.”