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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Questions on Biological Data wiped from official data - Times article

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Wandawomble · 13/01/2021 09:10

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/questions-on-biological-sex-are-wiped-from-official-data-klskthtfc

If anyone has a share token?

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BetsyM00 · 13/01/2021 16:11

How to submit your thoughts:

We would like to hear your views on the draft Guidance, and the proposed key messages and recommended questions we have set out to support public bodies to collect, disaggregate and use data on sex and gender.

This topic covers a wide range of complex issues and we appreciate there is a lot to consider. It would be helpful for you to focus on data issues in your response.

In particular we welcome your views on:

  • The underlying statistical principles that the draft guidance is based upon.
  • An approach to data collection that starts with an organisation considering what its data needs are
  • The proposed recommend questions
  • The messages around intersectionality, harmonisation and presenting data on non-binary groups
  • Scope of the 'data on sex and gender key questions’ checklist .

We would encourage you to respond to any or all of those parts where you feel you have a contribution to make. We welcome your thoughts on the potential impacts, both positive and potentially negative, of any of the points in the draft guidance.

We are inviting feedback on the draft guidance by 12 February 2021.

Please share your feedback on the draft guidance by email to:
[email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.
Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.
Feedback on the draft guidance may be shared with members of the Sex and Gender in Data Working Group order to help inform the next phase of work to develop the final guidance.

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MBM have a briefing note that might help:
mbmpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/invisible-women.-mbm-briefing-note-on-draft-guidance-on-collecting-data-on-sex-and-gender-january-2021.pdf

And I'm sure For Women Scotland will have more info in their next newsletter.

UppityPuppity · 13/01/2021 16:36

Betsy - do you know if you can provide feedback f you are not resident in Scotland too?

I would be utterly embarrassed to be associated with this is if I was the lead statistician.

Wasn’t there a push back against this by other statisticians?

Angryresister · 13/01/2021 17:56

The underlying statistical principles eh?

BetsyM00 · 13/01/2021 18:00

Betsy - do you know if you can provide feedback f you are not resident in Scotland too?

Don't see why not, it's never bothered the Scottish Govt before. And you're just emailing them, so unless you declare your residency status it's unlikely to be even considered.

ChattyLion · 13/01/2021 18:29

This is so bloody worrying. Isnt the Tories’ latest idea to sort out equality issues, to do it by first looking at the data?

WootMoggie · 13/01/2021 21:47

Unbelievable coming from the man who wrote “without good quality data, you’re not going to get good evidence based decisions; without public engagement and choice you’re not going to be able to be able to improve lives with that data”

twitter.com/HallidayRoger/status/1227270355603148800?s=20

NiceGerbil · 17/01/2021 01:07

The fact that it would be way more useful to collect both sex and gender

And yet that is never what's proposed

Really is telling.

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