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Need? We don't. There's other ways to provide what few benefits it might have.
In any situation that it's useful, it's about identification. Identifying for medical issues, for matching a person to their property, to a suspect, to whatever. There doesn't have to be a legal definition, or a mandatory listing at all. Would it be harder without it being on government paperwork? Absolutely. But there's other ways to achieve any of it. We could have voluntary medical ID tags that include our medical records nowadays. Not that I'd personally trust such a thing, but it would cut out the middleman of an SSN, driver's license, whatever.
We could have other means of matching identities for drivers, payments, etc.
But having a centralized identification method akin to a driver's license or passport is definitely the easiest way to have ID at all. And, if we accept that identification is useful enough to be semi-mandatory (which is mostly the case anywhere such ID is used), then it is necessary to have vital statistics useful for matching the carrier of the ID with the identity on record.
So, in that sense, some kind of labelling system is necessary. Doesn't have to be gender, but that is a pretty damn useful metric for the majority of people. Gotta be real and recognize that cis gender is the normative state of being. It's a massive majority. So having that metric available makes sense in terms of quickly parsing identity with identification methods.
But it isn't an absolute necessity.