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for the same reason a birth certificate, drivers license, social security record, or any other official document does: no reason at all!
It doesn't even make sense in medical contexts, where what matters is more the ability to become pregnant than something like your socially-assigned gender, so in an ideal world a medical chart might record the presence of organs like a uterus or medical capacities, for example to indicate a need for pregnancy testing before administering certain treatments, but not something like "male" or "female" which doesn't correspond to the reality of biological sex and will miss important nuances.
Ontario’s health card doesn’t even display a sex marker on it, though it is part of the information associated with the card. I really don’t understand why other forms of ID need it. It isn’t relevant toward identifying you or your ability to operate a vehicle. So why does it exist? Like you said: no reason at all!
The US social security card does not have a gender marker. However, the database entry associated with the card does, and that database is what the feds use as the primary reference for determining someone's gender in federal systems.
There are no circumstances where an ID card would be unable identify an individual but for the gender marker. Gender markers should not exist. Gender shouldn't even be recorded.
Examining the genitals of newborn babies and recording the findings is weird unhinged behavior. It should not be normal.