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24 Jan, 9 tweets, 2 min read

The UK’s National Statistician and head of the ONS, Professor Ian Diamond, has confirmed that the question in the Census “what is your sex” should be answered according to someone’s legal sex, and not a self-declared gender identity. /1

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In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today program he said:

“The question on sex is very simply your legal sex, there is then subsequently a question later which asks people over 16 the identity of their gender.

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This marks a change from 2011 guidance on how to answer “what is your sex”.

In 2011 trans people were told they could answer this according to how they identify. Since then an additional question has been added to the Census that allows people to record identity separately /3

We and others have argued that the sex question must once again mean the sex you were born /4

Stonewall have argued against this. They want trans people to be able to effectively record gender identity twice; once in the sex question and again in the ‘gender identity’ question. This conflation of sex and gender identity means that information about sex will be lost /5

Sex-disaggregated data is vital to understand differences between male & female people. It’s important for equality monitoring to identify when & how people are being treated unfairly because of their sex. Data on sex is used to make sure public policy works for women & girls /6

When sex and gender identity gets conflated meaning lost and false claims are made. Here the BBC gets it wrong about an apparent rise in women sexually abusing children /7
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Police now record crimes according to gender identity not sex. So ‘female’ crimes include males who ID as women /8

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Why bother to collect data that can’t be used for its intended purpose or claims to be something it isn’t. Bad data is worse than having no data at all. Statistics should inform not confuse /9

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24 Jan

NEW: Some organisations are doing a bad job by mixing up sex and gender identity, others are do better by collecting data separately on both. The mix-up and inconsistency means valuable data gets lost and false assumptions get made /1

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The prison service records both sex AND gender identity. But while things have improved more needs to change. Under current methodology trans people who have changed the sex on their birth certificate by obtaining GRC not appear in the annual figures for transgender prisoners /2

This means we don’t have accurate numbers for how many male-born transgender prisoners are currently in women’s prisons /3

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23 Jan

Calls to legally recognise ‘non-binary’ people could be a back door to the erosion of single-sex spaces and services for women and girls. “Non-binary” is being used to divide the world into male and non-male – and women lose out /1

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Stonewall are now calling for recognition of “non-binary” people in the Gender Recognition Act and in the Equality Act, as shown in their submissions to the current inquiry by the Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) /2

“Stonewall strongly believes that non-binary identities should be accommodated in a reformed GRA” /3

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@fairplaywomen

23 Jan

At last! Consensus between pro-women and pro-trans groups: All want clearer guidance on single-sex spaces /1

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Transgender pressure groups, trans allies, trades unions & others are calling for clearer guidance on the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act 2010. We agree. The Equality Act is clear, but the statutory guidance issued by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is not /2

The calls are in evidence submitted to the current inquiry by the Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) into the government’s planned changes to the Gender Recognition Act /3

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FairPlayForWomen

@fairplaywomen

21 Jan

@IPSOnews

Complaint submitted to @IPSOnews : Breach of Clause 1 (Accuracy). Misleading reporting of sex. /1
eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/denen-ander…

The use of 'Her phone' in the headline straight away implies to readers this is an unusual case of a female teenager who has committed the crime of accessing child pornography - a crime more commonly committed by members of the male sex /2

This is further substantiated by the word 'woman' in the first sentence of the text. This is a breach of the Editors Code on Accuracy because this is misleading. The individual involved was not born female and is in fact someone who was born male and now identifies as a woman /3

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FairPlayForWomen

@fairplaywomen

20 Jan

@IpsoNews

Reported to @IpsoNews for breach of accuracy.

The use of the word 'female' in the headline and text is inaccurate and misleading. The story is based on crime statistics recorded by the police. The police do not record the birth sex of an individual in crime records. /1

https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1351653711014227974

They record someone's self declared gender. This means the statement such as 'female paedophiles has almost doubled' cannot be made based on these statistics. The statistics quoted to show the increase includes both sexes; it includes women born female and transwomen born male /2

Readers understand the word 'female' to mean someone born the female sex. A headline saying 'female paedophiles almost doubles' and accompanying text "an 84% increase in female perpetrated child sexual abuse" misleads readers and therefore breaches the Editors Code on Accuracy /3

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@fairplaywomen

19 Jan

@BBCRadio4

Tonight the @BBCRadio4 documentary 'File On Four' made the claim that growing numbers of women are sexually abusing children. The data cannot be used to show this because police no longer record a perpetrator sex. They now record self-identified gender /1

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The BBC claims “Between 2015 and 2019, the numbers of reported cases of female-perpetrated child sexual abuse to police in England and Wales rose from 1,249 to 2,297 – an increase of 84%.“ /2
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The vast majority of child sexual abuse is committed by the male sex. The Crime Survey for England and Wales revealed 96% of adults asked about their experiences of child sexual abuse said it involved a male perpetrator. It is unusual for a lone perpetrator to be female /3

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