Emailed HR

Also, very few people are ‘assigned’ a gender at birth. Some are, due to physical abnormalities or medical issues. Most simply have their physical sex observed and recorded.

Well done op!

I’m my workplace they know my thoughts on the matter. I have never commented or sniggered at the pronoun badges or pronouns in email footers. I loathe the posters with the Q word, but applaud the ones highlighting menopause which use women throughout.

However I haven’t come across a man in the ladies loos or showers, and god help them if I do.

I had this at work too.

We're encouraged to fill in our personal data but then there is no option for no gender.

I left it blank, I refuse to say I buy into the gender nonsense.

Good luck, you're very brave. My workplace is so unquestioningly Stonewalled I'm too afraid to speak up.

I thought gender reassignment was the protected characteristic along with sex

In which case, do you also agree with :

What is your gender identity / I don't have a gender identity. (Or, I don't believe in gender identity).

Or

What is your gender identity? / I only have a biological sex

If both beliefs are protected, as is the right not to believe in either of them, then it should be symmetrical.

If I left anything blank, the form wouldn't save. No question at all about biological sex.

No they have not

The emoloyer is collecting data they have no need to collect data on an employees "gender Identity".

But it will turn out that the reason that they are collecting this data is that somebody somewhere decided that term "gender Identity" could replace a PC.

I’d also ask what the point to asking this is? They may walk as well ask favourite vegetable or first pet name. Actually they’d better off asking if you have any allergies or health issues they need to be aware of.

Have they now? I'd ask them why they want to collect data about "gender identity" and what they intend to use it for, given that the relevant characteristics in the Equality Act are Sex and Gender Reassignment.. So, if it's about having data to monitor equality act characteristics, they should be asking about those specific characteristics, not "gender identity".

And if it's not about monitoring equality, then what is the reasonable and necessary use that they need this data for?

the questions should be:
sex: male/female
are you transgender: yes/no
if yes what is your transgender identity?

Only appropriate if you believe in GI (which we don’t you’ll be shocked to hear).

But you can’t answer the question if it is only asking about gender rather than sex.
As has been said before ‘prefer not to say’ or ‘other’ is not appropriate.

My employer (a Stonewall champion 🙄) is the same and I got into a dialogue with HR about it. I was told they had consulted with the company LGBTQWTF+ group who had advised them on the questions but they couldn’t be changed. I asked about how they can collect data in line with the equality act and analyse the gender (sex!) pay gap but haven’t got an answer. I also said it was non-inclusive to anyone who doesn’t believe in gender identity but haven’t heard about that either.
We do have the option to state ‘none’ under religion.

I also work for a university and complained about this YEARS ago to HR, long before the Forstater case made it legit. I pointed out that we weren't collecting any information on a vital protected characteristic (sex). They replied that the format they collected data in was prescribed by HEFCE. Agree we need to change this but the rot goes deep

They have asked the appropriate questions you can always leave something blank if you don't agree

Yes. But you can also not have a gender identity.

I don’t “feel” or “identify” as a woman, but I have a female reproductive system so I am a woman.

I also have a personality that tends towards male traits, but they’re only male because society says so and not because they’re intrinsically linked with a penis.

Mumteedum

do you have any suggestions in mind, in case they ask?

It's like "what is your religion"
with options Christian, Muslim, etc.
but no option to say "I don't have a religion".

Glasgow that's what I asked

Of course you can.

Some people don't have a gender identity. I know I don't. I just have a biological sex.

No you can’t if you think gender identity is nonsense no

you have a sex and that’s it.

All that is needed is
Sex: male/female

If they really wanted or needed to:

Do you have an identity that is a different gender to your sex: Yes/no/prefer not to say

I think by reframing the subject as an identity then I could circle ‘no’

Can't you have a biological sex and a gender identity even if you don't agree that these can be different?

Well done OP!
I'll take note of your wording in case I'm ever faced with something like that.