Thread by @fairplaywomen

Why are groups who claim to advocate for the transgender community arguing *against* the collection of high quality data that can benefit them? There is a paucity of evidence-based research on trans outcomes like surgery regret, suicide rates and health /1

A full and rich data set on trans people will help any inequalities to be identified and policy makers to make trans lives better. Instead transactivist like Stonewall appear more bothered with pushing gender ideology that actual helping trans people /2

Stonewall says transgender people should be allowed to answer BOTH the gender identity question AND the sex question according to gender identity. They say it’s simply too offensive and hurtful to ask a trans person a factual question about the sex they were born /3

Gender identity fanatics claim that gender identity trumps sex, and therefore we don’t need data on sex. We say, on the contrary, we need accurate data on both sex and gender identity in order to investigate the way both factors influence people’s lives /4

Accurate data on sex benefits everyone no matter how someone identifies. Stonewall wants the idea of asking anyone what sex they were born to become taboo. The ONS are helping make that happen /5

Read more here about why birth sex data matters

fairplayforwomen.com/sex-in-the-cen…