Financial Services Regulator EDI guidance

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Nick Fletcher seems to be on a bit of a roll at the moment .......

Financial Service Regulators at the @TheFCA have proposed highly divisive EDI regulations for our hugely important financial services sector.

Their proposals will embed contested & unscientific gender ideology, which harms women, across the sector.

22 Conservative MPs & 18 Peers have written to the Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt asking him to examine these proposals carefully.

twitter.com/NickFletcherMP/status/1762835315721482665?t=LDWNQyj7NJLlUFXjqn1kaA&s=19

This looks awfully like the Conservatives doing something about protecting women's rights for all those saying they've done nothing.

Yvette Cooper on the other hand on Women's Hour did not reassure me at all that S Blake's murder would be recorded as a male crime under Labour. She was very weasel worded about it all. It's quite simple 'yes this will be recorded as a male's crime under Labour' she did not say.

I got the sense she was hoping to fudge it by saying 'sex and gender are different' well, duh, rocket science it is not. But she didn't say whether it would be recorded as a man's crime. I think it would be recorded as a woman's crime and then there'd be some tiny marker somewhere hidden that the criminal was transgender and she believed that meant her words were true (well, identify as true at least).

And yes, very impressed with Nick Fletcher's recent work to protect women's rights.

I like the last bit of the letter, but it seems inconsistent with the bit at the beginning complaining about them wanting to capture data on other protected characteristics. Seems to weaken the message.

I wonder if Rosie Duffield (or any non-Tory MP) was invited to sign the letter? Probably not, but visible cross-party support would be good, wouldn't it?

s this just their staffing, or will it spill over into statistics of insured? I wonder where actuarial statistics come from? I know that life assurance stats are very different from critical illness, as they both vary by sex. Basically women are less likely to die but more likely to have a critical illness and recover. I am not a statistician nor sadly an actuary. Does anyone have any info on this?

I am currently dealing with some financial companies on a couple of things, and every letter I get has pronouns on it!

I was an actuarial assistant in the 90s and back then for the female life expectancy etc. statistics they just used the male tables but pushed them up 5 years (or something, don’t recall the actual figures involved). I found it a bit shocking.