Should "sex" be on this list?

[LisaTheMug]

Can anyone here please help me? I am in Worthing and trying to pursue the WPUK campaign of making sure public bodies don't switch "sex" for "gender" but I am confused.

On a police page, I found this list:

"Identity Based Mentoring

We have recently introduced a new Identity Based Mentoring scheme which will enable Sussex Police officers and staff to request a mentor based on a shared identity.

• Age
• Disability
• Gender reassignment
• Pregnancy and Maternity
• Race
• Religion or belief
• Gender
• Sexual Orientation

The scheme is open to anyone in the Force and will be running alongside the existing Mentoring Scheme. Its aim will be to support staff with career progression and personal growth. In addition it will enable them to receive guidance and encouragement from a mentor who shares one or more of the characteristics."

The page is at sussex.police.uk/about-us/governance-and-processes/equality-and-diversity/

Sex is not on that list. But it has both "Gender reassignment" and "Gender".

I phoned the bloke in charge and he told me gender and sex are the same thing, and I said, no, sex is a protected characteristic, but to be honest I could not be very stern because I felt I was on wobbly ground because I don't really understand what TF I am doing.

Does sex being a protected characteristic mean that it ought to appear on that list instead of "gender"? Or does that only count on statements that specifically mention the EA?

Well if they're expanding the categories they c/should include misogyny. Nottinghamshire are already doing this and are a trail blazer. I'd ask them why they aren't.

This is from statement by Victoria Atkin At recent Hate Crime debate.
^At the moment we have no clear evidence to show the extent to which the range of crimes committed against women and girls are specifically motivated by misogyny, which is defined as

“the dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.”

The police pilots that have been mentioned in this debate are of great interest to the Government. As the hon. Member for Great Grimsby said, there are pilot areas across the country, including in Nottinghamshire, where it has been led by Sue Fish, the former chief constable of Nottinghamshire police. That approach has been used to help give women confidence to come forward to the police to report incidents, and to raise the priority of investigations and enhance support offered to women and girls. There has been positive early feedback from women and girls, and those who support them, which is why the National Police Chiefs’ Council is gathering more data on those local initiatives. We will ask the police to feed back on the results of any pilots such as that in Nottinghamshire in recording misogyny as a hate crime.^

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alternative subculture identity - for example "Goth" "Emo" "Punk"

FFS! Yet not sex! Wankers.