Thread by @fairplaywomen

#FPFWvONSCensus

Everyone needs accurate data on sex in the census. It's important for the LGB & T communities too.

Accurate information on birth sex is important so it can be placed alongside the new voluntary question on sexual orientation /1

Ticking the box “gay or lesbian” necessarily requires accurate sex data to disaggregate the two distinct groups of gay men from lesbian women. Forms of discrimination against lesbians can be different from forms of discrimination against gay men, as can their health issues /2

We need good data regarding which young people are identifying as transgender and why most are now natal females. It will be of crucial importance for the ongoing independent review into gender identity services for children and young people led by Dr Hilary Cass /3

Transactivists 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 to order to investigate the way both factors influence people’s lives /4

It is possible that such analysis will reveal that sex is unimportant in certain contexts - only then should we stop collecting data on sex in those contexts /5