Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology at Oxford University, said the admission of error was “long overdue” and called for the question to be rewritten where it is used in other official data gathering.
“The same question is used in the GP patient survey, and has been used to claim that trans people are more likely to suffer from dementia. This result could easily be an artefact of the bad question– older immigrants with poorer English are more likely to misunderstand the question and more likely to have dementia,” he said. “So there are very real consequences of this flawed question.”
'Trans people are more likely to suffer dementia' is a quote that could easily be misattributed and misused I feel.