I am what you might call a “heavy user” or, as I prefer to think of it, a “key stakeholder” of the Office of National Statistics’ website and data releases. As a result, I have been following the ONS’ efforts to achieve an accurate picture of the total size of the United Kingdom’s trans population with considerable interest.
So, I’ve been somewhat taken aback by the reporting and commentary over the issue, and around the ONS’ recent court defeat, which has forced it to revert to using the mandatory question asking for sex, rather than gender. (A reference to “use the sex recorded on one of your legal documents such as a birth certificate, Gender Recognition Certificate, or passport” was rewritten to exclude passports on the grounds that this could allow “self-identification through the back door”.)
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