Another option is to use the AUTOLOAD feature, and determine valid tag toggles using a hash rather than an array (although there's no reason you couldn't generate the former from the latter)...

my %state = (
  name    => 0, # default states
  gender  => 0,
  address => 0,
);

sub AUTOLOAD {
  my $tag = $AUTOLOAD;
     $tag =~ s/^.*:://;

  my $turn_off = $tag =~ s/_$//;

    # Only keep track of tags we want.
  return unless exists $state{$tag};

  $state{$tag} = $turn_off ? 0 : 1;

    # Do something that uses %state
  whatever();
}
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    --k.