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Organisations citing Gender not Sex

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ClingFilmApplications · 14/03/2019 20:30

I thought it might be useful to start a list of organisations incorrectly citing "Gender" not "Sex" as a protected characteristic.

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Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 18/03/2019 17:16

This one is really worrying!

Equality & Diversity
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is committed to equal opportunities and strives to ensure that all members are treated in a fair and equal manner regardless of their gender; race; disability; sexual orientation; age; being pregnant or having a child; and religion or belief.

www.rcm.org.uk/about/what-we-stand-for/equalities-and-diversity

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 18/03/2019 17:09

This one is a shame, though Girl Guides, on this occasion have it correct.

scouts.org.uk/about-us/key-policies/equal-opportunities-policy/

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Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 18/03/2019 17:05

This one isn't a surprise

www.westyorkshire.police.uk/sites/default/files/2018-10/equality_information_2017-18.pdf

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ClingFilmApplications · 18/03/2019 14:33

The "No Outsiders" parents presentation from the controversial Alston Primary School is worse than I thought. It cites "Gender Identity" as a protected characteristic, as well as "Gender"

<a class="break-all" href="http://go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=www.alston.bham.sch.uk/no-outsiders" target="_blank">http://www.alston.bham.sch.uk/no-outsiders

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FeminismandWomensFights · 17/03/2019 21:10

Civil service training when you sign up to it, only asks you for gender. Instead of asking for sex. But then you have to tick either ‘male’ or ‘female’. Confused
civilservicelearning.civilservice.gov.uk

Katvonmythicbiowoman · 17/03/2019 20:12

Mcmillian cancer care....

FFS

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Katvonchangedlightbulb · 17/03/2019 11:42

The Labour party.

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ClingFilmApplications · 17/03/2019 11:15

Sorry - I should have made it clearer in the original post that I was referring to organisations that list Gender as one of the protected EA2010 characteristics as opposed to the generic use of the term (which is of course commonplace).

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Ereshkigal · 15/03/2019 14:29

I never use it when I mean sex, for exactly this reason.

3timeslucky · 15/03/2019 14:23

Everywhere I look gender is used in place of sex ... even in something like on the Basis of Sex where the whole legal brief is re-typed to substitute the work sex (as in sex discrimination) with gender because the word sex is just that little bit too graphic ("and you know how men are" - quote from film). Once it started being used as a polite alternative it started tripping off the tongue and is now second nature I think. Largely unthinking, but also very specifically considered. Drives me batshit!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/03/2019 12:36

Might be easier to list organisations that do list the characteristics correctly...

CharlieMCB · 15/03/2019 12:22

SeaRabbit, thank you I've done that.

InflagranteDelicto · 15/03/2019 11:11

Adding bucks child imms survey to the list. Online consent form, great. Asking my child's gender, not great.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 15/03/2019 08:54

It used to be a less ‘tee-hee-hee-they-said-s-e-x’ way if asking. Since the word gender has no meaning now and the word ‘woman’ is heading that way, people have take notice.

sorenipples · 15/03/2019 07:46

I work in an organisation with strong links to other countries. Like slippery lizard I see references to gender balance, and gender pay gap. Although my inner voice says "sex not gender " I can see that sex balance and sex pay gap don't sound right ("does the organisation have the correct sex balance?") and may be particularly confusing to those who don't have English as a first language.

Mumphineasandferbmadea · 15/03/2019 07:45

I am another person who just thought it was another way of asking your sex. Thinking about it though I haven't seen sex asked on a form in years.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 15/03/2019 07:41

I do that.

Vixxxy · 15/03/2019 07:36

My doctors surgery regularly use 'gender' and everytime I fill out something I do cross it out and put 'sex'. As gender is completely irrelevant in most areas of life, but especially in a medical setting.

Vixxxy · 15/03/2019 07:35

Yeah a lot of places use 'gender' as 'sex' is 'embarrassing' or whatever. Its quite pathetic to be honest. And part of how we got into this fucking mess in the first place. A lot of people use gender and sex interchangeably, thinking they still mean the same thing. But..they don't these days. Gender is totally different to sex, gender is about which stereotypes you follow and some mystical 'inner feeling' that most people seem to not have. Sex is, well sex, and it matters. As all women know.

GrimDamnFanjo · 15/03/2019 06:59

All the data I read as a secondary school governor uses gender and not sex eg exam results, behaviour reports

SeaRabbit · 15/03/2019 05:12

We all need to click at the bottom of the government website linked to, to point out that they are using gender when they should be using sex.

SlipperyLizard · 14/03/2019 21:47

Gender is so often used as a “nicer” way of saying “sex” - Gender Pay Gap anyone? There are posters up all over my work at the moment about “Gender Balance” too.

Trouble is, I can see why “Sex Pay Gap” and “Sex Balance” sound wrong on a poster.

This sort of thing is one reason (like relying on the Guardian and BBC for current affairs) why I was blind to this madness for so long. I genuinely thought “gender” was just a polite way of saying “sex”.

WineGummyBear · 14/03/2019 21:38

Everything!

I literally cannot remember the last time I filled in a form and had to give my sex.

It's ridiculous.

MhairiV · 14/03/2019 21:37

Lambeth Council

twitter.com/cedawnow/status/1101458120134610944?s=21

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GenderIsAPrison · 14/03/2019 21:37

Royal Academy of Engineering on their Candidate Diversity Monitoring Form and their website.

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