London: A census being held this year in Britain will ask people about their gender identity for the first time, the country s national statistician said on Friday.
The census, which will be held on March 21 in all regions except Scotland, will include the question after asking for people s legal sex, Professor Sir Ian Diamond told BBC radio. We will be asking for the first time a voluntary question later in the questionnaire about gender identity, he said, specifying that this will only apply to people over 16.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published a recommended question which asks whether a person s gender identity is the same as their legal sex, and if not, asks them to enter what it is.
UK Will Allow People To Enter Their Gender Identity In Census 2021
Updated On January 22, 2021
In a first, a census being held this year in Britan will have people enter their gender identity. The same was confirmed the by UK’s national statistician on Friday. Â
Professor Sir Ian Diamond told the BBC radio that the census will be conducted on March 21, 2021, and it will include questions about people’s legal sex. He said, “We will be asking for the first time a voluntary question later in the questionnaire about gender identity.” He added that the question will only be asked from people over 16 years of age.Â
Scot Govt Chief Statistician wants to replace sex with ‘gender identity’ in official data
Scot Govt Chief Statistician wants to replace sex with ‘gender identity’ in official data
21 Jan 2021
Pavlo Vakhrushev
Public bodies should ask questions on the basis of gender identity rather than sex when collecting official data, a top adviser to the Scottish Government has said.
In his draft guidance Roger Halliday, the Scottish Government’s Chief Statistician, suggested that questions on biological sex “should not be asked” except in specific medical situations, claiming it is “likely to breach an individual’s human privacy”.
A Scottish Government summary of the document stated that in most cases “data should be collected on the basis of gender identity rather than sex”.
Questions about a person’s biology “should not be asked” according to draft guidelines from Scotland’s chief statistician, in a paper that has fuelled concern that sex is being increasingly erased
| UPDATED: 18:15, Wed, Dec 23, 2020
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