Thread by @fairplaywomen

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

The ONS will now start recording sex and gender identity separately. In a welcome change, this year the 2021 Census will ask two separate questions; one about sex and one about gender identity /4

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The head of ONS has indicated in a recent interview on the Today program that this time everyone, including transgender people, should answer the question “What is your sex” according to what it written on their birth certificate /5

Police record crimes based on self-declared gender as if it was sex.

In 2019 we revealed using Freedom of Information laws that police forces were now recording ‘self-declared gender identity’ in the gender [sex] category in official crime statistics /6

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This means people born male who self-identify as female are getting recorded in ‘female’ crime statistics. This includes rapists and male-born sex offenders. /7

This leads to false claims that more women are sexually abusing children. When in fact the rise is likely to be due counting males as female. /8

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There are 125 legally female offenders convicted of sex crimes plus at least another 74 male-born transgender offenders. All 199 of these sex crimes would have been recorded by the police as ‘female’ despite around a third of them having been committed by male people /9

Court reporters are misreporting self-declared gender identity as if it were sex. This is because judges are being advised to use self-declared gender identity instead of sex /10

This has led to court reporting by newspapers now reporting crimes by males who identify as women as if they were committed by women /11

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When we complain to the press regulator that such newspaper reports are misleading readers we are told there has been no breach of the Editors’ Code because reporters are ‘accurately’ reporting what’s said in court /12

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This matters because obscuring male-pattern crimes distorts public perception of who is committing the crimes. It is rare for women to commit violent or sexual crimes but these headlines falsely suggest otherwise./13

If official statistics and public records are to retain meaning there needs to be a clear and consistent way to record sex and gender.

Conflating the two means data gets lost and confusion is caused leading to false claims. /end

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