Sports survey for girls only about sexual preferences

[OhHolyJesus]

Has anyone had this via their school?

Email from last week I read just now is about a survey for girls aged 11-14 about participating in sports.

It's an optional survey that's come from Youth Sports Trust so easy to ignore and not complete, but why would they ask a question about sexual orientation/sexual preferences? I don't see the relevance and it's a bit invasive.

There is no similar survey for the boys.

I obviously don't genuinely know. However, I would have thought it would be to do with the fact uptake of extracurricular sport activities is generally lower in girls than in boys of this age hence why they are targeting girls (I don't know if this is truly the case but it seems likely).
I would suppose the sexual orientation etc. questions are to find out whether certain groups have a particularly low uptake and to look at why that would be

Because girls don't participate in sport as much as boys and LGBT even less ?

It's all about getting girls more active surely and the reasons of non participation. Surely a good thing.

I think it would be good if it wasn't for that age group and if it was for boys too and also if it asked more generally about reasons why kids that age want to/don't want to participate, questions around confidence, ability, maybe even body image and eating disorders if handled extra sensitively.

I think it puts the question on the child having a sexual preference. I know kids 'fancy' the same/opposite sex but it doesn't mean it won't change, I think even raising the question is intrusive.

It didn't give the option of asexual, meaning no sexual preference, though you could tick 'prefer not to say' or as I said, not complete the survey.

I don't like the idea of kids being out into boxes and even connecting it to a sports survey suggests it's relevant, when it has nothing to do with PE/Sport.

Is also asked for date of birth and other details. I don't know if that's a GDPR thing or not but I don't like the idea of children's data being stored by an organisation outside of the school.