What sex were you "assigned" at birth

[MollyButton]

I work for a very large employer. I recently filled in our "workers opinion survey".

Most of it was fine harmless stuff.
Then there were the questions on gender.
What was my gender?
Did that differ from the gender I was assigned at birth?

Now I know that they are bending over backwards to be inclusive. But these questions are actually frightening.
Any other question where I objected to the wording - I could go on my department focum and whinge. But these ones, if I whinge publicly I risk being branded as phobic - and to be honest I could end up not passing probation. And being accepting of all is actually very much part of my job.
But I feel attacked that my sex is becoming something that was arbitrarily assigned rather than a biological fact. It feels Kafkaesque.

Is there anything I can do?

They flicked a coin when I was born and assigned me female!
I would raise an informal complaint about the question and say it should ask observed at birth.

You've probably shared a bathroom/changing room with many trans people, with and without penises. And at least on most of those occasions, you were none the wiser.

This is such a pack of lies.

You've probably shared a bathroom/changing room with many trans people, with and without penises. And at least on most of those occasions, you were none the wiser.

We know. We always know. We are usually just too polite to acknowledge it in any way.

Interestingly I commented on someone using the assigned at birth terminology recently. Pointed out it is not picked at random, but observed and noted.

They decided that was a hill they wanted to die on and replied with a proper mansplain about how assigned is correct and blah blah.

Language police are everywhere!

Simply write "I've no idea".......& that would be perfectly true.

Life's too short for this shit.

Just answer the question or don't and move on with your day. I can't imagine having so little to worry about that these sorts of trivial things kept me up at night

..and that is because your imagination falls short of what being a woman actually means in real life, rather than in fantasy land.

If only this baby girl could have told them she was actually assigned male at birth, she might not have been buried in a pot, to die alone in a graveyard

Absolutely...so profoundly upsetting and disturbing....and when it comes down to it the absolute reality of what being born female can imply.