‘Gender’ options on form

[ninja]

Starting a job and u need to fill in the information about me. Predictably they’re asking for my ‘gender’ - but interestingly the options are:

male
female
anatomical
non binary
prefer not to say

I’m assuming anatomical means it fits with my body - which I think is a good thing - but maybe it doesn’t? I’ve googled and cannot find any description of this being used on a form.

Thoughts?

Anatomical? Maybe real? Factual?
Honestly, who knows. What is evident is that gender woowoo beclowns every organisation and adult that tries to navigate this nonsense.

I suspect "anatomical" means the opposite sex to the one you were conceived/born, but with surgical/cosmetic changes.

Based on the recent trend of transpeople who have had surgical/cosmetic changes claiming to be "anatomical women/men" and insisting that that means they can use the wrong single sex spaces.

I would ask them why they are collecting this data OP, as the information requested does not appear to be one of pieces of information covered under Data Protection legislation:

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

@Chersfrozenfacethat was my worry - although you can only tick one thing which is odd. I really hoped it meant ‘I don’t believe in gender, look at my body and you’ll know’

I may just need to ask for clarification

Thanks @IDareSay

Here to lower the tone, as I frequently do:
‘I don’t believe in gender, look at my body and you’ll know’
sounds very much like a line from Madonna's Crazy for You..

I did a survey yesterday that had a gender question. Luckily it had a comments box so I used that to tell them my sex.

If there's the capacity to do so, I generally write something like.
None. Gender means sexism, and I reject sexism so have no gender. My sex is female. Collecting data for diversity monitoring and collecting gender information rather than sex information is inherently sexist.

Anatomical? Where does that lie on the robot to biological scale?

They’ve agreed it’s confusing and now taken it off the form (shame I was tempted just to tick it!). Now space to make any comment and the email back mentioned ‘assigned at birth’ so clearly going to have to be careful.

tempted to write back and clarify - so you just want me to tick my sex?

Did they clarify what the purpose of collecting that data was? I'm curious.

The fact we have to come here or Google to ask proves what bollox it all is

No - no explanation of why it was asked and it’s a required question.

I need a job and can’t afford to make trouble before I’m officially employed sadly!

I would be helpful and send them this link https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/collecting-and-reporting-data-about-sex-and-gender-identity-in-official-statistics-a-guide-for-official-statistics-producers/

I did a competition the other day which asked if I wanted to complete a short survey. Was having a lazy day so yes, why not.
they asked - ‘what gender do you identify with?’
The options were -Man/woman/trans woman/trans man/non binary/prefer to self describe.
I won’t mention the company, a family member works for them and believes in this bollocks.

You've done more than many of us already, ninja - you challenged something and got it removed, so thank you and well done for that, now concentrate on hanging on to that job👏