Reluctantly.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has changed the way it collects information about the sex of people working in law.
The move affects its biennial Diversity Questionnaire and follows the recent High Court ruling which ordered the Office of National Statistics to change its guidance for the 2021 Census.
The SRA said that it had altered its approach after considering the research undertaken by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in preparation for the 2021 Census and listening to a range of voices on the matter , adding, We appreciate there are many strongly held views on these issues .
The legal regulator s explanation omitted to mention that the ONS s research included being taken to court by campaigning feminists over its lax approach to recording sex, and losing.
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