Zoe has gone woke

[MrsSnippyPants]

I’m sure they were asking for your ‘sex at birth’ previously?

Actually, I suppose people with transgender identities may not answer it incorrectly.

"At a minimum, we urgently call on countries to publicly report the numbers of diagnosed infections and deaths by sex. Ideally countries would also disaggregate their data on testing by sex."

BMJ recognises that not disaggregating the data by biological sex is hindering the fight:

blogs.bmj.com/bmjgh/2020/03/24/sex-gender-and-covid-19-disaggregated-data-and-health-disparities/

The more I think about it, the less relevant I think gender identity is.

"It is important for us to understand the role that hormone replacement medications may play in transgender individuals among other things."

What about every other type of medication? Is it important to understand the role that they may play in individuals? Are they collecting that data as well?

Anyway, as discussed above, given that some transgender individuals may not necessarily be accurate when answering a question about sex, collecting information about hormone medication in relation to that sex is also rendered as pointless as the rest of it.

That's a really interesting BMJ article, Xantham. I might put it on the Corona stats and data thread.

They aren't asking about hormone medication though are they
They are just assuming that anyone who says they are trans is on hormones...
If that's the standard of their data and analysis then they are utterly pointless

Maybe if they asked your blood group? I heard a radio article about how when they compared % of each blood group in a community with those who came down with COVID-19 they saw that certain blood typer were under-represented - coincidence or something else? How could this be useful?

Anything not actually useful and just pandering to a lobby group is a load of time wasting crap.

They've released at least two updates since, and not a mention of the failures in data collection and therefore the compromised science.

It says they are following the US standard questionnaire.

This presumably happened when they also stated collecting US data.

Bloody cultural imperialism.

They are trying invoke an external thing in the hope that will stop people asking questions.