@drwitch
See I dispute the idea that this should be only decided by the relative weight of various interest groups. This is what got ONS into this mess. After all other trans interest groups in other country lobby for a sex registered/assigned at birth coupled with a GI question (this is what the canada census is doing actually). -
I'm not sure what you mean by the second point, but I v much agree with the first point in principle. The problem is we are not starting from a neutral position. One perspective has been given a great deal of weight, and we need to break that so that big orgs like ONS start actually thinking about these things objectively, giving weight to different perspectives/needs, with one eye strongly on the law (the actual law not the one given them by lobbying groups of any flavour).
How different would it have been if just one of the women's sector organisations that already have the ear of public institutions had hung on to underlying principles & stood up for female ppl?
On the mum who has recorded their child as the sex they identify as - if no gi question appears for under 16s then the census can't collect info on trans ppl of that age group however the sex question is answered. The guidence asks ppl to use their official docs, so if the child has not changed any official docs then the mother is disobeying the guidence anyway. There will be no way of knowing how many do this. I think it's reasonable to assume fewer would do this if the guidence said 'use legal sex' or 'use natal sex' - 'documents such as...' does rather open it up - but we can't know that.