Petition to keep sex mandatory question on the census

[PlonitbatPlonit]

I know that many Mumsnetters are concerned about changes to the status of women and girls, including collecting data about sex in the census - which is vital for equality monitoring.

There's a petition to the government at the moment.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/202435

Keep the category of sex a mandatory question in the 2021 Census.

We oppose the published tentative recommendation by the Office of National Statistics to make sex a non-mandatory field in the 2021 Census. We demand that sex remains a mandatory question in the Census and is included in all government demographic data collection in accordance with SDG5 commitments.

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Data collection disaggregated by sex gives us vital information for policy making and distribution of resources. If implemented, the ONS recommendation will make widely acceptable that sex becomes a voluntary question. This will render useless equal opportunities monitoring designed to combat sex discrimination. It will influence governments worldwide making difficult the monitoring of imbalances resulting from sex-selective abortion, female infanticide and unequal treatment of girls and women.

Currently has 824 signatories, which I'm sure does not reflect the number of people in the UK concerned about this issue. Do sign, do share if you agree.

[WitchBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe]

Signed

[MiddleagedManic]

Done

[Thelilywhite]

Signed

[ErrolTheDragon]

I've already done it.

[BubbleLamp]

Signed as has my husband.

[ChiefClerkDrumknott]

Signed

[Berthatydfil]

I signed and shared it and my 82 yo dm did too

[AnneTwacky]

Signed

[LineysRun]

Thank you for posting this.

[MorbidMuch]

Signed.

[CountFosco]

Signed

[PlonitbatPlonit]

Thanks to everyone for signing for this. Please also share and ask your friends to sign. Personal approaches work. If everyone who has already signed (1,240 so far) asks another two and they sign and do the same, it will snowball quickly.

[AccrualIntentions]

Done!

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

Signed.

[scalliondays]

Signed and shared as well

[duvetdaysgone]

Signed 👍

[BewitchedBotheredandBewildered]

Done.
Thanks.

[AccioWine]

Also have signed. As have my husband, mum, dad & sister.

[BlueCows]

Signed.

[NeedingSolutions]

Signed

[XJerseyGirlX]

Signed

[Casmama]

Done

[OutnumberedbyFurchesters]

Done, and got DH to do it. :)