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Census releases data on gender identity

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RoyalCorgi · 06/01/2023 10:29

This is from the 2021 census:

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/genderidentity/bulletins/genderidentityenglandandwales/census2021

Only 0.5% of people identify as a different gender/sex from the one they were born with.

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nilsmousehammer · 06/01/2023 10:48

As it was clear that many people were going to put in their preferred rather than actual reality, the data's totally meaningless. As we pointed out. It's a very expensive mess serving no useful purpose. But it felt nice to people when filling it out, so that's all right.

DodoPatrol · 06/01/2023 10:44

18,000 (0.04%) wrote in a different gender identity

Was that the box below the question that asked if your gender identity was the same as your sex? That was a fucking difficult question to answer, honestly. Like so many people, I don't feel any sense of gender separate from sex, I'm just identifiably female.

RoseslnTheHospital · 06/01/2023 10:41

KatMcBundleFace · 06/01/2023 10:36

Interesting equal numbers of transmen and transwomen......

118,000 (0.24%) answered “No” but did not provide a write-in response

48,000 (0.10%) identified as a trans man

48,000 (0.10%) identified as a trans woman

30,000 (0.06%) identified as non-binary

18,000 (0.04%) wrote in a different gender identity

From the detailed dataset the actual numbers before rounding to the nearest thousand are:

Gender identity different from sex registered at birth but no specific identity given: 117775
Trans woman: 47572
Trans man: 48435
Non-binary: 30257
All other gender identities: 18074

Chersfrozenface · 06/01/2023 10:38

I don't suppose this takes into account those who deliberately and inaccurately put the sex they claim to be rather than the sex they are as their answers to the question on sex.

KatMcBundleFace · 06/01/2023 10:37

Newham and Brent have the highest number of transmen.

How intriguing..............

KatMcBundleFace · 06/01/2023 10:36

Interesting equal numbers of transmen and transwomen......

118,000 (0.24%) answered “No” but did not provide a write-in response

48,000 (0.10%) identified as a trans man

48,000 (0.10%) identified as a trans woman

30,000 (0.06%) identified as non-binary

18,000 (0.04%) wrote in a different gender identity

RoseslnTheHospital · 06/01/2023 10:36

Thanks for the link, it's a very interesting read. Lots of useful stats. Brighton and Hove has the highest number of people reporting a "non-binary" gender identity, at 0.35% of people who responded.