To complain about “gender identity” question on a registration form

See also, "When did you stop beating your wife?"

Your last sentence - did you mean it to be ironic? (And I'm not talking about the Soz)

Nah we just have completely different realities and views of the topic. The queer and trans community is incredible, beautiful and resilient but I’m genuinely sorry there are people that think we’re all out to sabotage life as we know it or whatever. Anyway, have a lovely day :)

I have no religion. Answering the question either yes or no is inaccurate if you do not believe in religion in any form.

Well done, call out this nonsense, every single time. It’s good if it makes them uncomfortable - for too long they’ve relied on making women uncomfortable

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Maybe they're not asking for help from the charity. They could be trying to volunteer or set up a regular donation.

stop trying to change the world to fit your worldview basically

Oh dear, is your irony detector out of batteries?

I was checking in for our flights with Easyjet yesterday and had to add my Advanced Passenger information. One of the mandatory questions was 'Gender- Male/Female'
It infuriates me - what they actually mean, of course, is Sex. Why do they put Gender? Especially when they only offer the options of Male or Female 🙄

You’re perfectly entitled to not receive the help from the charity if you don’t agree with a tickbox on their form.
feel free to continue complaining and sending emails protesting stuff like this, gen z have the biggest % of people who identify as queer etc and none of it is going to stop because people can’t handle that the landscape is changing.
stop trying to change the world to fit your worldview basically, it’s not going to happen. Soz xx

Get your head around this! Click the pic to view in full.

How does objecting to a mandatory question about gender identity, which offers no option to accurately record your own 'identity', prevent fully grown adults from wearing clothes of their choice or changing their name.

As others have said its like asking about religion, giving me the option to record myself as an atheist does not deny anyone else the right to worship any god of their choosing.

I think you are confused.

I've had very similar twice, but luckily both times were paper forms. I crossed the question out entirely and wrote 'Sex identified at birth: Female' in the space.

I don't care if anyone reading it rolled their eyes tbh. I'm not validating such nonsense in any capacity.

Or as is the case in my organisation when we were told we had to use this, responses along the lines of “my gender wasn’t assigned” and “I don’t have a gender identity” enabled the staff to push back against the Board (one person in particular) who was gung ho about phrasing it that way. It’s now an optional rather than compulsory question and we ask people what their sex registered at birth was .

Always push back on this this insidious nonsense on forms. There's usually a free text box somewhere on a form, often right at the end. I use that. Yes, the person reading it might roll their eyes, but if enough people do it, consistently over time, it might make a difference in the end. And if it doesn't, there's no harm done in trying.

Surely we have the right not to have a gender identity, then? It's bigoted to prevent someone applying to a charity if they don't have one, by not allowing for that possibility on the form!

How is it "pathetic" not to have a gender identity?
Plenty of people, especially women like myself, who were brought up to question and challenge sexist stereotypes and to know that males and females can have equal and diverse abilities, talents, tastes, skills, characteristics and lives, have, as a result, grown up without a gender identity and find the idea oppressive and regressive.

Every bloody form is like this lately

For that question to work it needs to have a ‘no gender identity’ option. I’d personally prefer a ‘gender is sexist bollocks’ option but I’m prepared to compromise.

The problem is that questions like this are normalising a fringe belief that is incredibly harmful to women and girls.

The Cass review has shown that currently girls who think they might be trans outnumber boys six to one. So it's obviously not like being gay or left handed. And if those girls take testosterone it is likely to make them incontinent within a few years.

Safeguarding children and young people is everyone's responsibility.

Yes I think YWBU.

It’s one thing to be pro- sex based rights and maintaining single sex bathrooms and prisons etc. Or to be against the teaching of gender theory to school children.

But fully grown adults still have the right to dress however they like and call themselves by whatever name they please, do they not? Free also to have gender reassignment surgery should they wish. And so asking the gender identity question is legitimate.
Getting your knickers in a twist about it just makes you look bigoted.

I hate all these race/gender/sexuality questions. I always say prefer not to say. But of course, it’s creeping in that you HAVE to say.

YABU. What will happen next is that the person reading it will roll their eyes and think you’re pathetic. HTH.

What if there was a question demanding to know what religion you followed and no option to ignore it or prefer not to say?