'Do you currently live in the gender you were given at birth?'

I haven't got anything to contribute; I just agree with everything everyone has posted so far.

'Living in a gender'. FFS.

What do you identify as? A sentient, reality aligned human being. You?

Saying all of the post above would be a great response on the phone - guessing the fields on internet forms wouldn't allow enough characters for my real response though.

Absolutely this.

I wasn’t given a gender at birth.

An expert in such matters, assessed my physical characteristics and documented them as a sex - on my birth certificate, and for their own records no doubt.

I believe I was given a gender when my chromosone mix was determined, which pre dates that point. I can’t say when, I’m not a scientist and I was too young to remember.

And the only thing I live in, is a house, a town, a country, but on a planet, in a solar system, in a spiral galaxy in a universe.

I suspect the lobby advocating for such questions might have other ideas about what I live “in” but to the best of my knowledge, the above is as true statement.

I do not understand how one can live in a “state of being male or female”…. It’s like asking a Russian who has never left Russia, if they identify as American. They haven’t been there, they only know what they’ve seen on tv or heard second hand accounts of, they might empathise with the plight of poverty there or be envious if the wealth that some have, but they cannot possibly ever know what it is to be American. Even if they move there and get Citizenship, they might have an improved idea of what it is to be American, but they won’t have grown up there, they will have missed out on many formative experiences that take a lifetime to and there’s every possibility they may return to Russia or head somewhere else. I would suspect that most Russians who have spent more than half their life in America, would continue to believe they remain Russian. I accept people are more complex than animals (maybe) but taking a Russian animal and releasing it in the American countryside, doesn’t make it American, just as animals have no issues about biological sex and just get on with living.

Ultimately, i would not apply to work for an organisation that insisting on asking me an impossible question to answer like that, and one clearly designed to figure out on which side of an ever changing ideology I am likely to be aparty to. I’ve learnt to keep my personal politics out of the workplace.

People absolutely have to push back against this and ask them 'what do you mean' and 'why do you need this information' and 'what are you going to do with this information once you have it'.

They don't know what they mean, they don't need it and they won't do anything with it, because it is meaningless.

You're very obviously NB

Plenty of people seem to be living in an agenda, though.

If you're also sporting a beard and lipstick you're probably a woman.

Sorry - I meant to say poly not pansexual.

Not as in taking the piss out of trans identified people themselves just of the whole ideology and the people claiming identities like 'pansexual' when they haven't even kissed anyone yet.

i’m wearing blue but also a bra - so which gender ‘am I living in’

That's a bloody good point! Would that really hold water though? Your sex is immutable and a protected characteristic whatever their fictitious recording says surely?

As to the blood donation stuff there was a man recently who'd given blood for decades turned away because he refused to answer the question of whether he was pregnant on the basis that it was utterly ridiculous.

And yes! The majority of teenagers I know (and I'm a teacher as well as a parent) think this is all utter madness and piss taking ripe and a form of attention seeking.

On a few NHS forms & the one for my dentist, I’ve had the question about sex, not gender. Some of them even specified that it had to be ‘sex at birth’. So that was refreshing.

That's all I require of a bank. I'm perfectly capable of forming my own opinions, I don't need banks, of all things, to be my moral arbiter.

Could we stop the world? I want to get off! Seriously why are we putting up with this stuff? I've just been reading about banks shutting down customers accounts if they have views that don't match such things as gender woo, I mean just be a bank ,keep my money safe, pay my direct debits and offer assistance when/if I need it.

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain Perhaps they ask the same question of six-year-old boys? After all, you never know…

I’m laughing at asking a man if he could be pregnant

Got that when I had my covid jab (67 at the time). I looked at the nurse and said 'I'm 67, what do YOU think?' and she snapped that she had to ask. Surely when they're filling in the forms it's not beyond their IT to exclude that question based on the age being input?

Once every 28 days I hermmorage wildly leaving me in extraordinary pain at which time I'm expected to work as usual so I guess that makes me female? However it might be that I once bought a lipstick for 12.99 at superdrug so I must be a woman

Well it’s probably given him something to laugh about with his mates. This nonsense is abundant in material for teenage piss-taking.

It’s awful - it forces gender critical people to either comply with their woo gender religion or not apply for jobs.
My hospital HR forced me to do the same - I am now on their systems as female gender with no sex recorded - so no recourse to the Equality Act as their records are incomplete.

There is more and more of this crap creeping in online too. I got this question from an NHS dietician online consultation recently although she was at pains to emphasise that this is the kind of question I could be asked at any hospital now - yup it was the gender question. I firmly told her that I am a woman and that is the end of the conversation.

A 16 year old boy at that Francesca - after she's already established he's male.