Gender choices for the 2021 census

[Mart 'n' Al]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7464527/Experts-warn-new-trans-friendly-guidelines-wreck-crucial-plans-Britains-future.html

What will they think in 100 years?

Martin

[philipsearching]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7464527/Experts-warn-new-trans-friendly-guidelines-wreck-crucial-plans-Britains-future.html

What will they think in 100 tears?

Martin

Would I be allowed to respond thus?
What is your sex?  At my age, only a dim and distant memory.

[pinefamily]

On a similar note, filling out a form from an Australian government department, instead of the question "married, de facto, or single" there were two choices, single or partnered.
Really? I think the world was better when PC meant a computer, and we still had the ability to laugh at ourselves.

[dowdstree]

Martin maybe in 100years there will only be one sex - human person 

Philip - Love your answer 

Dorrie

[whiteout7]

What is your ethnicity annoys me more quite frankly when you can't tick more than one option. It is like people asking you to saw yourself in half.

[dowdstree]

Yes, that is another annoying question.

Tempted to answer not sure still researching my family history

Dorrie

[Regorian]

Census may not last much longer. 2021 may be the last. It's expensive to collect. Govt. has many other sources. A great pity nevertheless.

As to gender/sex. There are only two sexes, male and female. It's immutable. There is no such thing as sex change. However, some males and a lesser number of females identify with the opposite sex/gender, always have done. So, where's the harm except for small minded bigots.   

[Mart 'n' Al]

There must be many half-caste people who don't know their father, and consequently don't know 50% of their ethnicity, and can't accurately answer the question.

I can quite believe for the next census there will be one page dedicated to ethnicity and gender preferences and the other page will be the normal census information.

Follow this link, and search for the word 'Cree' and read from there:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

I actually think people have become so ornery and difficult in recent years, that there will be so many people being difficult when they are asked to answer the census questions, that it will either be meaningless or abandoned.

There just seems to be no respect for authority these days.

Martin

[Regorian]

What do you mean by authority? There's always been immigrants in Britain. Saxons, Danes, Norwegians (Vikings), even blacks,army and navy, although they were not identified as such in any records usually, and other people from the Mediterranean, and further east. Never any problem.

Too many for assimilation now perhaps.

Royal Bucks Militia 1790. To be seen in Buckingham, Aylesbury, Chesham, Beaconsfield, Slough etc.