This is the problem isn't it.
The office of national statistics have decided to change the sex question to legal sex.
They did this because they were worried sex at birth would lead to mass disruption in completion by people who did not find that a reasonable question.
So it's been changed.
Their thinking will be that such a small amount of people will have changed their sex marker on passport etc will be so small it won't matter. Plus that most people will just look at the question male female and tick their sex.
That's a poor way to do things. Across the board language is being changed etc and it's relying on people seeing gender and putting their birth sex as they don't know about the definitions. And making assumptions. That's a terrible way to collect data.
And so it's been changed and lots of women and others are unhappy.
But as ever it's a done deal and we say well what do we do?
Be honest because we know what they want
Be honest according to stonewall (most people are trans)
Put it in religion
Etc etc
So we're left bickering over how to fill in the sodding census to make a point. Because yet again we're on the back foot.
There's no point in saying let's do this or that.
If course it was changed because of the threat of trans activists and their supporters disrupting it.
The idea that women might hasn't crossed their minds.
In my household we are all non binary. And I'm not fucking with it. None of us internally identity as male or female 100% of the time.
And some of us don't have an internal gender identity.
We're trans. By the rules that's what we all are.
That's what I'll do.
Female or male plus trans and non binary. What sex are you? They need to understand for maternity planning, primary schools, elder care etc and so on. But somehow. Actually they don't need to know.
I think it's pointless to argue about what to put where. It's trivial in the end. Feels like doing something but in the end. The question is gone and they are fine with that.