To get irritated by surveys that ask for my 'gender' but not for my sex?

My friend crossed out pregnant person on her maternity notes 😂 and put pregnant women.

Yes, this is how stupid it's becoming. Telling children at nursery they can pick their 'gender' but then confuse the word on many forms. The thing is children are actually being told they can change sex, leading to a life of massive disappointment when they realise they cannot.

To the many posters who don’t have (or feel they have) a gender - agender is a valid identification :)
hope that helps

I agree. I’m also confused by forms that ask what gender my child was allocated at birth. All my children were born in the Uk and they were NOT allocated any gender , either in hospital when they were born or when I registered their birth a few weeks later at the registrars office.

They have all now completed 13 years of state schooling and I’m 100% sure that they have NEVER been allocated a gender . So I don’t know at what stage it gets allocated and by whom.

I don’t know of a country which DOES allocate these genders to children and why on official education form would be asking this . It must be very rare and yet often there is no option to say “ not applicable “. I’ve certainly never seen one of these forms with boxes for all the 156 genders, so it must be very distressing and excluding for those people who have one of them that is not mentioned.

And what about the people who have different genders over time, sometimes varying each week? How on earth are these people supposed to answer these questions ?

If there’s no box for “female” I tick “other”. That opens a dialogue box where I am able to impart the irrefutable information that I am a female.

What a devilishly whirlwind existence 😳

Don't you worry; we'll keep up the good fight on behalf of womankind.

I agree OP. I had to sign a medical form for my ds's school trip. I scored out gender and wrote sex. If the form is to be used in a medical capacity then it's pretty important the sex of the patient is known, not what they identify as.

Although having said all that I still do cross out gender on forms and replace it with sex.

I agree with you i just think gender was used as a near synonym of sex for centuries before the linguistic (male female neuter), academic (socially constructed roles etc) or cultish (gender identity) usages emerged. Sometimes people do use it to mean sex and while that confuses things I dint think it's necessarily "wrong".

Yes me too. Although bear in mind that it’s likely someone clueless from HR making the form rather than a political statement. Recently I had to correct a draft form that had the “gender” options as: male, female, intersex, gender fluid, and trans. I had to point out that it felt like some concepts were being muddled.

But all forms have the option 'Ms' Surely? That is the exact equivalent of Mr.

Where have you been the last 5-10 years?!?

asexualtoadlover

That’s what I’m going to be if anyone asks from now on 😎

There are many sensible reasons for the gender/sex question on forms, but mostly what is required is very straightforward 'black and white' answer, and simply referring to your biological, born form. Unless the particular circumstances of the survey/form/questionnaire are concerned with some personal identity or sexual tendencies no one cares in 99% of the time the question is being asked if you think or feel a version of M or F or have made any mental or physical 'alterations' to your biological origin.

There's often a question now asking if your gender is the same as your birth sex. I'm presuming that would be infuriating too!
It's hard to please everyone when asking these generic questions. I do think the word 'sex' almost became taboo, like if you said the word sex it would make people think of sexual intercourse? Hence why the word gender became more common. But now that's also a hotbed of controversy.
I guess it should just say 'are you female/male/something else?
Though obviously the 'something else' could also be deemed controversial.
I'm glad I don't have to write surveys any more, haha.

😂😂 hilarious

My sex is female, my gender is female.
I am a "biological woman" physically, I identify as one too gender wise.
So I really can't get worked up if it asks for my gender. I just answer.
I don't understand more why some people on here can't seem to grasp that we're not all the same.
I just tick the box for me. Female and female.

Why let it bother you so much? It's just a word on a form. People get so het up about this gender stuff. If you're a woman then great, write woman. Why is it such a big deal?

I care, and I feel it does matter. It’s asked for a multiplicity of reasons, and it skews data if ‘gender’ is employed and considered a self-selecting social construct. There is a long history of discrimination of women on the basis of sex. Asking ‘gender’ makes this a woolly and distorting question if people are given anything other than a male/female binary choice.