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Questions on Biological Data wiped from official data - Times article

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Wandawomble · 13/01/2021 09:10

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/questions-on-biological-sex-are-wiped-from-official-data-klskthtfc

If anyone has a share token?

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Winesalot · 13/01/2021 10:02

I claim the identity a Jedi. I shall add it to any data collected on me. Now, how do public services cater for my needs? No studies have done on my gender so, who is to deny me the immortality treatment I need if I demand that I need them to maintain my identity. Including laser hair removal, please. I am getting a Jedi support group sorted. Any other Jedi gender people out there? We need to be officially recognized.

OldCrone · 13/01/2021 09:57

An accompanying Scottish government summary said that “in most cases data should be collected on the basis of gender identity rather than sex”.

Is there a link anywhere to the Scottish government's definition of gender identity? So that people who are unfamiliar with the term will know whether they have one and what it is.

Vermeil · 13/01/2021 09:46

It amazes me that those who propose such moves cannot see the obvious problems it will cause down the line, or more worryingly that they can see, they just don’t care.

littlbrowndog · 13/01/2021 09:42

We are all just the same then

No point in collecting any data at all

What use is it ?

No planning needed. 🤪

MichelleofzeResistance · 13/01/2021 09:40

K, I'm there now. I'm done with co operating any further with this bullshit. I shall be randomly identifying as whatever the fuck I feel like at the time whenever I fill in a form that doesn't give the option of sex.

Not paying taxes for vast amounts to be wasted collecting fictional data that therefore has no purposeful use. Nor am I staying nicely in a box and playing by the rules so that others don't have to.

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Wandawomble · 13/01/2021 09:12

“Questions about a person’s biology “should not be asked” according to draft guidelines from Scotland’s chief statistician, in a paper that has fuelled concern that sex is being increasingly erased from official figures.

New guidance on data collection encourages public bodies to pose questions “on the basis of gender identity rather than sex”

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