Michael Biggs, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Oxford, has written an illuminating piece in the Spectator criticising the effort in the recent census to determine how many transgender people there are in England and Wales. As he points out, the way some questions were posed renders the findings unreliable – such as the bizarre stat that there are more trans people in the London boroughs of Brent and Newham than there are in Brighton.
Here is an extract:
The problem began with the question itself. The ONS did not ask a plain question like: “Are you transgender?” Instead, it chose a convoluted formulation: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?”
Those who answered “no” could then write in their gender identity. This question assumes that everyone has a gender identity. It also assumes that everyone was registered at birth. As the human rights campaigner Maya Forstater has emphasised, some immigrants were not registered at birth. The question could have puzzled many respondents outside the professional and managerial classes. How many of them mistakenly answered in the negative?
Anomalies appear when we look at the distribution of the transgender population by local authority. Newham and Brent top the list, with 1.5% and 1.3% respectively. Brighton and Hove, with 1%, ranks only 20th. Yet Brighton is the LGBTQ capital of Britain, home to the country’s longest-running Trans Pride celebration. It is also the site of two universities, including the University of Sussex where some transgender activists and their allies effectively ousted philosopher Kathleen Stock for writing about sex. Could Brighton really have a less salubrious climate for trans people than Newham? It seems unlikely.
This data is also hard to tally with that gathered from a petition to reform the Gender Recognition Act, launched by trans activists in 2021, which attracted 118,000 signatories from England and Wales. By comparing the distribution of signatures to the distribution of the transgender population according to the census, we see that the correlation between the two distributions across all 331 local authorities is close to zero. Brighton and Hove, for example, had more signatories, relative to adult population, than anywhere else except the City of London. Newham and Brent, by contrast, had relatively few signatories, ranking 303rd and 304th respectively.
If places like Newham and Brent had so few inhabitants willing to sign a pro-transgender petition, what accounts for their prominence in the census transgender figures? What these boroughs have are many immigrants for whom English is a second language, and who are therefore liable to be confused by a convoluted question on gender identity. The strongest predictor of the transgender population across 331 local authorities, as measured by the census, is the proportion of people whose main language is not English.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Noah Carl has done his own analysis of the recent census Much of what he unearths corroborates Biggs’s findings. Carl focusses on the unusually high proportion of non-responses to the gender questions and explains how that tarnishes the results.
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The Daily Mail and Daily Express are churning out the Marxist/Fascist Propaganda at an enormous rate.
Let’s hope they are made answer for this at Nuremberg II.
Clicks are all they have, apparently actual newspapers are below 1m and falling fast
46 mutations? Blimey, looks like someone’s been at the whacky baccy.
Yes, you’re right, re. the ‘wacky baccy’!
David Icke sums up excellently, with his trademark sarcastic/humorous comments, the craziness re. this ’46 mutations’ cr*p. He posted the following earlier this afternoon:
“Taking the p*ss again: ‘covid’ warning as ‘new variant’ with ’46 mutations’ ‘infects 12 in southern France’. They are calling it the variant, variant, variant, variant of the variant, variant, variant, variant, er, variant. Message to the desperate Cult: There may be many stupid people in this world, but you have seriously undercounted how many are more intelligent than you would like them to be”, at:
https://davidicke.com/2022/01/03/taking-the-piss-again-covid-warning-as-new-variant-with-46-mutations-infects-12-in-southern-france-they-are-calling-it-the-variant-variant-variant-variant-of-the-variant-variant
They’re really desperate to stop us possibly getting a cold
Seems the ‘Covid Curtain’ is rising all across the world doesn’t it?
For the greater good, ALL must take the jab.
Imagine having a choice of being stuck in that backwards shithole or taking the clot-shot!
Couldn’t agree more.. money galore, but f*ck all else.. you can always pound sand I suppose..
To see if people really react badly to burka wearers, my wife, who is a journalist, decided to wear one for a week, and gauge the reactions.
On the first day, she was spat on, slapped in the face, threatened with death, and yelled at.
And she hasn’t even left the house yet.
And that was the treatment she received from you.. ha ha..
An authoritarian neck of the woods where corruption is the norm.
Some sultan’s son probably gets a taster for every jab administered.
Because of course, having the third jibjab stops you from catching and transmitting the lurgy. Oh, hang on a minute…
Brown envelopes all round from big pharma?
“More than 90% of the population in the UAE has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.”
-err….. that’s very unlikely, as there are no ‘vaccines’ for Covid-19.
The Government says the aim is to prioritise “making money for themselves and their mates”
-that’s more like it!!
Hold on. 90% fully? You mean triple or double? Double can’t be as they don’t let you leave so it’s not fully. So they claim 90% triple? Suuuure.
It’s two sides of the same coin – incentive and punishment to promote the third dose, in case anyone was thinking of calling it a day after two.
The fourth dose is coming in February.
That bans all BioNTech and Pfizer employees from leaving the country then.
Hmm: they are probably all issued with fake arms for the stabbings.
BioNTech employees are exempt ‘by law’ from taking the vaccines.
There is an ivermectin panic on the big tech and MSM right now. Massive articles from MSM on Ivermectin trying to push a danger narrative and also negative press on Americans Frontline Dr’s, again, to keep the Covid narrative alive. Just go to the Goog and type ivermectin then look at all the panic news articles. We are over the target. Big-Pharma is panicking. This medicine has been widely used by humans without any problems for 40 years. It’s inventor won a Nobel Prize after 20 years of successful use and after 100 million people were cured of a broad spectrum of problems without any side effects. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Well, they’ve always been a prison country.
I wonder how long until UAE cracks down on Telegram and bans the service.
Those who supported mandates in any form, opened the door to this kind of event. I fully believe 2022 will see the first open imprisonment of those who refuse the vaccine in some part of the world.
You are living in the free world, in the free world you must stay!
I take it the uae is privy to scientific data no other country has seen? Why would they even consider such a draconian measure? How much were they paid to do this? Must have been a few dinars.
Oh great! Macron will copy this within 10 days. Thankfully we escapes to Lanzarote ( again) on the 1st , it was the inevitable next move.
And our kids did NOT make it into France for Xmas.
If we could sell up and move today , we would. Spain and Panama are looking the best options at the moment. But it changes so easily.
Illustrates perfectly: ”It’s not about what they say it’s about”.