1/ 2021 NHS Staff Survey. It is a basic principle of questionnaire design that when you expect the respondent to pick one option, the responses must be mutually exclusive. People who identify as non-binary are also male or female. And why can you self-describe sex but not age? 
2/ How has this changed over time? NHS Staff Survey 2019 Version. You can self-describe and prefer not to say for sex, but non-binary is not included.
3/ NHS Staff Survey 2015 Version. Just 2 sexes (though they call it gender). The move away from collecting data on sex is recent and has been carried out without proper discussion or scrutiny.
4/ Sex matters. All organisations that care about monitoring inequalities need to capture this vital protected characteristic. Source here: nhsstaffsurveys.com/results/result…
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