What best describes your child's gender?

[Ratherly]

What best describes your child's gender?
Female
Male
Other gender identity (please describe)
Prefer not to say
If you selected Other, please describe.

Survey for association connected to school activity

I select other - and in please describe I put sex - female

Really rankles (in the minor scheme of things)

What do you select?

“Other”

Describe: biological sex = [insert], we try to move away from sex/gender stereotypes

The trouble with ticking the other box is that the survey senders can now say x% of our participants are non binary rather than % are female/ male.

I'd probably select female on this one, and separately make the point to the school that female is a sex not a gender.

I'm wary of ticking other in case they use that to justify any dodgy "inclusive" decisions, by saying that X% of the school identify as "other".

Cross post with Etinoxaurus!

Is this question instead of asking their sex? (Although given the choices, I suspect not)
Why do they need to know gender - is it relevant to the activity?
And if it is not relevant, for what purpose are they asking? - I seem to remember that this has something to do with GDPR from previous threads.
Either they need to know the male/female participation for their safety / safeguarding / marketing, or perhaps they need to tick a box regarding diversity.

I would probably go for 'other' and then write 'no gender identity, but sex = (whichever)' but accept the points made about that not being ideal either

Ah a mix! I do take on board the issue with recording other. TBH I don't know of any self declared non binary kids in our fairly non woke area so it would be an anomaly.

Not the school's survey otherwise would take up the issue directly.

Survey didn't ask about sex

If it's a paper form I always cross out gender and put sex. If online I tick female or male as needed then right a comment explaining that is their sex and that gender is a made up concept.

I'll do this in future I think. It was an online form.

Is this question instead of asking their sex? (Although given the choices, I suspect not)
Why do they need to know gender - is it relevant to the activity?
And if it is not relevant, for what purpose are they asking? - I seem to remember that this has something to do with GDPR from previous threads.

This

The question doesn't sit right with me, quite apart from my disagreement with the idea of gender.

I can’t recall either of my children ever telling me they had a gender so I can’t answer this question.

I do exactly what you did, OP. Including on the emergency contacts form, filled in at parents' evening in front of my child's teacher.

Yes, I felt like a crank. No, I wasn't going to let that stop me.