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Forms, asking for "gender" not "sex" what can I say?

42 replies

MrMrsJones · 29/01/2022 10:29

I quite often come across forms, sign ups which will ask..

What is your gender, not sex

I did query one which replied "that's what people want no a days"

So how do I reply to that?

Do we just shut up and put up?

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Flammkuchen · 29/01/2022 11:01

Tick 'prefer not to say' or 'other' and explain why.

Firms can hold data on your sex without your permission. They cannot hold data on your gender without your permission.

I now refuse to give my gender. I am very happy to provide data on my sex, but frankly that is obvious.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 29/01/2022 10:57

@serendipitea

I usually click other if it has a free-text box and write My SEX is Female.
Exactly what I do.
VelvetChairGirl · 29/01/2022 10:56

@horseymum

I had to fill in one which had got itself very confused. Intersex was one of the gender choices 🤨
I've seen that maybe we should start taking screenshots and naming and shaming.
VelvetChairGirl · 29/01/2022 10:54

@serendipitea

I usually click other if it has a free-text box and write My SEX is Female.
this or prefer not to say
SamphiretheStickerist · 29/01/2022 10:50

@BlueberryCheezecake

Gender is a perfectly acceptable synonym for sex in these contexts and has been used as such for centuries. Just tick the box that applies to you.
I know you will ignore this as you never enter into dialogue, but you know full well that isn't true

You've been on enough threads where many posters have taken the time to explain, provide examples, links to actual laws, that show you that your opinion is not universal nor, despite your protestations, that of the majority of UK adults who have expressed an opinion.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 29/01/2022 10:48

@BlueberryCheezecake

Gender is a perfectly acceptable synonym for sex in these contexts and has been used as such for centuries. Just tick the box that applies to you.
I sometimes wonder why people think they're entitled to tell others what to do based on their own partial interpretations of history. Of course, then I reflect on the usual activities of the commenter in question.

Centuries v. 1945.

The modern academic sense of the word, in the context of social roles of men and women, dates at least back to 1945,[34] and was popularized and developed by the feminist movement from the 1970s onwards….

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

HipTightOnions · 29/01/2022 10:46

@BlueberryCheezecake

Gender is a perfectly acceptable synonym for sex in these contexts and has been used as such for centuries. Just tick the box that applies to you.
We can see what you're trying to do here, Blueberry.

So sometimes gender means sex and sometimes it doesn't. How do we we know when, and who decides?

anothersmahedmug · 29/01/2022 10:46

@BlueberryCheezecake

Gender is a perfectly acceptable synonym for sex in these contexts and has been used as such for centuries. Just tick the box that applies to you.
Not any more it isn't

We are trying to be respectful of transgender people here

Making sex and gender the same means they would not have the language to talk about themselves , which is pretty cruel

horseymum · 29/01/2022 10:45

I had to fill in one which had got itself very confused. Intersex was one of the gender choices 🤨

Cailleach1 · 29/01/2022 10:43

I suppose they are giving people the chance to be liars or heretics. Those that aren't susceptible to indoctrination by this new mythology .

BlueberryCheezecake · 29/01/2022 10:42

Gender is a perfectly acceptable synonym for sex in these contexts and has been used as such for centuries. Just tick the box that applies to you.

Beamur · 29/01/2022 10:41

I usually go with 'prefer not to say' as it's none of their business.

anothersmahedmug · 29/01/2022 10:38

@DahliaBlue

Loads of forms are like this. Just go with the flow and tick the box that equates to your sex unless you believe in gender ideology and feel yours is different to your sex and want to declare it as different to your sex
You mean lie ? Pretend you have one?
Krakenchorus · 29/01/2022 10:35

Write or choose 'none' if possible on the form. Or write in sex: female if it's, say, a medical form where the information matters.

DahliaBlue · 29/01/2022 10:35

Loads of forms are like this. Just go with the flow and tick the box that equates to your sex unless you believe in gender ideology and feel yours is different to your sex and want to declare it as different to your sex

SamphiretheStickerist · 29/01/2022 10:34

And now we can refer them to the EHRC statement made this week. No way to misunderstand that.

serendipitea · 29/01/2022 10:33

I usually click other if it has a free-text box and write My SEX is Female.