How do I fill in this form about ‘gender identity’?

They appear to have only offered 2 'genders' as suggested by their use of the word 'opposote'.

You could ask them which 2 of they 112 genders they mean.

Or yes I would go down Knee’s route and ask for a description of the two genders and perhaps the meaning of man or woman.

I’d refuse to fill it out on the basis that I only recognise gender as a social construct. If they would like to send me a form regarding my sex and biology I’d be happy to fill it in.

They form is erasing your protected characteristics.

I would refuse, and say why - nobody is "assigned a gender".

We must stop going along with this bullshit

I'd contact and in a bewildered tone ask for a description please of the two gender roles on offer: are they talking clothes, split of household chores, hobbies, hair length, make up choices: you need to see the two role boxes they would like people to define themselves against. That ought to shut them up since it's impossible to do without major recourse to stereotypes. If they then send you a list you have all kinds of options including who wrote the list, is it subjective, is this compared to national standards, what national guidance are they following about what the 'role' of each 'gender' is seen to be?

If they get past all that (they won't), you can then explain you don't identify with either role OR a trans identity either, but you do have a biological sex, and watch their heads explode.

This crap all completely relies on people just going along with the open secret that everyone knows what a woman and a man is and there's no such thing as 'gender roles' that people 'choose'. There's biological sex and personal choice and that's it.

This is the whole problem, we are forced by this tick box Stonewall imposed monitoring to submit to this coercive supervision.

Yes. I mean, had they asked are you on the transgender spectrum? I presume you would have had no problem answering? You can just say no, I am not.

The framing of the question is that you must have a gender identity. It's like having the religion question as Are you Protestant or Catholic? when you're Jewish, or Muslim or Sikh or atheist. You're coerced into entering a false categorisation of yourself.

I do not have a gender identity. I do not believe anybody has a gender identity. I believe people have a sex, a sexuality and a personality. Why should I have to describe myself in terms of something I don't believe exists?

FFS.

I'd refuse too - send it back, explaining your reasons.

'Gender assigned at birth' is a phrase that is only relevant in the vanishingly small number of cases in which babies are born with ambiguous external genitals. It is an anachronism dating back to times before DNA testing when many of these babies would have been assigned 'girl' at birth and had surgery done asap (because, for obvious reasons it is easier to fashion some kind of a vaginal opening than a convincing penis), leading to all sorts of misery and hardship when puberty hit (testosterone imprinting happens in the womb, so those with an XY chromosome assigned 'girl' at birth did struggle later on').
This is why the small number of true intersex babies now born, DNA testing is standard and provided their genitals are functional i.e. allow them to void their bladder, any possible surgery will be deferred until the child is old enough to at least understand what may be happening to them or be old enough to have legal capacity to consent.

No adult human male or female with the appropriate set of chromosomes has been 'assigned' anything at birth.

Like I said, FFS

Purpose of the form is monitoring diversity and inclusion performance of the organisation I think. The gender question isn’t the only one on it, there’s also some others I have no problem with. AFAIK they have collected information before on protected characteristics, including sex and also gender reassignment.

This is the whole problem, we are forced by this tick box Stonewall imposed monitoring to submit to this coercive supervision. It's all very policing and invasive. Suggest they have a voluntary submission, if they want to count who does have a difference in those terms, which many don't even care about or understand, they can make it self reporting. It's not mandatory for everyone to be categorised like this. Not everyone needs to be rigidly divided up by the Stonewall categories.

Quite Errol

And what happens if you adopt some aspects of your gender role at home and work, but not others.

Or if you adopt something approximating the gender role at home (in your life) but not at work.

WTF does 'live and work in same/different gender role' even mean?

Print it off and correct it with a simple and factual "sex - male or female" and pop it in the internal mail.

sorry - should read "does not provide"

If you tick prefer not to say that is an implicit acceptance that you accept gender identity is a real thing and you just prefer not to say.

This means the TAs are demolishing biological sex a brick at a time.

I would write and say it does provide an answer which fits what you are i.e. female sex.

I'm sure you don't want more work load, but I'd email the HQ to complain that they've assumed you have a "gender identity" when you reject gender.

You are a female and they need to understand that female means something. Otherwise they are erasing your existence.

Why are they erasing your biological sex?

Also ask for what you do want on the form and say why

What is the purpose of the form? Would biological sex have been captured at another time and they are now realising that they don't have any info on trans employees?

In my institution we are asked to declare biological sex and then answer a question similar to 2 (is your gender identity the same as your sex).

As gdpr comes in, it might be worth asking why they need this info and what it will be used for. Also, if you have more than 250 employees, how they will report on the gender pay gap if they are not recording biological sex.

I couldn’t answer it because I wasn’t assigned a gender role at birth

I would refuse to complete it.

Gender is a social construct which has been and is still used to oppress women.

We should not be buying into this nonsense and legitimising it.

I would refuse to fill it in on the basis that:

I didn't accept the gender role assigned to me at birth. In fact I've spent my life getting cross about the restrictions and expectations it places upon me and fighting against them. It caused huge problems for me with my parents growing up and was a contributing factor in the breakdown of my marriage.

I haven't accepted the opposite gender role either.

And I wouldn't prefer not to say because that would be completely misinterpreted and I'm not ashamed of, or trying to hide the fact, I'm a woman.

The "equality and diversity" section on a job application is normally optional and should never be part of the application proper. (Ie the HR person who decides who is coming for interview should never see that bit.)

Surely the 'prefer not to say' option exists for people like you...?