"A woman (including a trans woman)"

[GCGayDad]

I was just registering for an online conference - nothing to do with gender at all but kind of local government-related - and saw something I've never seen before on the registration form.

The attached screenshot shows it, but basically it asks 'How do you define your gender' and gives you the choice of, and I quote:

A man (including a transman)
A woman (including a transwoman)
Non binary
In another way, please let us know
Prefer not to say

There is then a helpful box to fill in one of your 199 possible genders in case the ones above aren't enough.

This has made me angry. It''s goes much further than giving (trans) people the choice to answer the question as they wish. Instead, it forces the rest of us to include transmen or transwomen within the incorrect sex category.

Aaargh!

I suppose at least you have a box to be able to explain.
But- we can't even tick woman now, as it's an identity rather than a fact.
Messed up ain't it.

Use the free text to say what you think. I always do... 😈

Oh you should have seen the one I wrote where they asked for my ‘gender identity’ and an option was intersex...🤬🤬🤬

I'd probably use the 'other' box and say sex is female. I have no gender, if I was feeling voluble.

Same problem when signing up to Pinterest- just identity question.
I therefore ended up as non- binary!

I always tick other and in the box explain that I don't have gender/sex dysphoria (although I have a lot of sympathy for people who do), my sex is female and I believe that gender is a series of unhelpful stereoptyes that repress males and females.

I then ask how they are going to compile data on males and females and potential sex discrimination.

Its disheartening regulatory capture. I do genuinely believe thought that when people actually start having to use all these surveys to generate actual real data the penny will start to drop.