Suggestion that census could ask “do you menstruate?” instead of asking sex.

[broccolibush]

Telegraph article

So apparently it could be more inclusive and more precise to ask do you menstruate instead of asking for your sex. Which makes no sense at all to me. It would mean that pregnant women, menopausal women, women who have had hysterectomies, women on hormonal contraception, anorexic women, pre-pubescent girls and many others aren’t female. Surely this is beyond stupid?

More concerningly the article refers to “soft decertification” and “slow law” as a way to describe softly-softly pushing through change to erase women from womanhood.

These people need to grow up. And then fuck off.

Are they asking men Do you ejaculate?

Scrolling, I remember re. Scotland. Luckily in England the litigation was won by women and the Government forced to change the census guidance to make it clear you could not just pick a sex based on what you thought or what was on a passport.

I’ve not menstruated for 5 years.

@Xenia · Today 10:32
Scrolling, I remember re. Scotland. Luckily in England the litigation was won by women and the Government forced to change the census guidance to make it clear you could not just pick a sex based on what you thought or what was on a passport.

Thank goodness that happened in England. But it was so shocking that in Scotland a ‘judicial review’ ignored evidence of what the word sex has always meant in the census, suggesting they were not impartial at all.