French operator SNCF has previously asked passengers to self-declare as ‘Monsieur’ or ‘Madame’.
The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that requiring rail passengers to declare a gender when buying a ticket is in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Does France have a general problem with violence on trains? Stories like that can come from any place on earth with trains and humans.
General no, but it happens, mostly in the Paris region - then again the regional trains of other big cities don’t really make the news unless it’s a big one, so I can’t be sure.