Cancer referrals have been missed and previous convictions overlooked because biological sex has been erased from official data on health, crime and education, a review has found. The Times has more.
The review, commissioned by the last Conservative government and released on Wednesday, found that the word “gender” started to replace “sex” in the collection of data in the 1990s and that for the past ten years “robust and accurate data on biological sex” has been lost.
The study, led by Professor Alice Sullivan from University College London, investigated all public bodies and found “the meaning of sex is no longer stable in administrative or major survey data”.
Sullivan’s review found inconsistencies in the way sex and gender were recorded and conflated. Some official surveys were found to remove sex altogether and only collected information on gender identity.
This included a Royal Navy sexual harassment survey, which asked how respondents identified rather than asking for their sex “despite its obvious relevance to the subject matter”.
In another case, a children’s camping programme raised safeguarding concerns through collecting data on gender identity, with male, female and “other” response options.
Some of those interviewed for the study said there was a “hostile environment” in raising the issues within their organisations and Sullivan said that ministers should “consider the vulnerability of government and public bodies to internal activism that seeks to influence outward-facing policy”.
Sullivan said the Office for National Statistics had “radically changed” how it viewed sex in terms of data collection and recommended that the UK Statistics Authority — which oversees the ONS — should consider launching a review of activism and impartiality within the civil service in relation to the production of official statistics.
It is understood that the review has been circulated to all government departments by Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, with an acknowledgment that accurate data collection is essential.
Sullivan said: “This should not be seen as a zero-sum game between characteristics. We can and should collect data on both [sex and gender identity]. Acknowledging sex does not erase gender identity or vice versa.”
The review found that across the NHS “gender identity is consistently prioritised over or replaces sex”. She said that records that traditionally represented biological sex were “unreliable and can be altered on request by the patient” and that there had been a “gradual shift away from recording and analysing sex in NHS datasets”.
This meant there were “clear clinical risks”, such as patients not being called up for cervical smear tests or prostate exams, or the misinterpretation of lab results. Sullivan said: “This has potentially fatal consequences for trans people.”
In one case a paediatrician said that a child had been brought up in the preferred gender of the mother, which was different to their birth-assigned gender. “She [the mother] had gone to the GP and requested a change of gender/NHS number when the baby was a few weeks old and the GP had complied. Children’s social care did not perceive this as a child protection issue,” the doctor reported.
Sullivan’s review said the patient’s ability to change their records “puts transgender individuals at a particular disadvantage and as such is potentially discriminatory”. She said that in some cases samples such as blood tests could be rejected by laboratories or sex-specific cancer referrals could be missed.
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Fortunately Hungary can always be relied upon as an oasis of sanity at times like this ( immigration too, of course ). I always think Viktor Orban and Rupert Lowe would get on like a house on fire as they share the same views on many things;
”Hungary’s National Assembly passed a new bill on Tuesday prohibiting access to pornography and content depicting sexuality “for its own sake” for minors, as well as material promoting gender reassignment, homosexuality, or deviation from birth sex identity.
The legislation will also prohibit public meetings in Hungary that violate the prohibition set out in the Act on the Protection of Children, a move expected to result in the banning of Pride — an annual march promoting and supporting LGBT+ through the Hungarian capital — enraging organizers.
The law, proposed by the ruling Fidesz party, was approved by 136 votes in favor, 27 against, with no abstentions.
Under the new law, attendees of prohibited events could face fines of up to HUF 200,000 Hungarian (€503), penalties that cannot be replaced by community service or detention for misdemeanors. All collected fines will be allocated to child protection initiatives.
Police will also be authorized to use facial recognition technology to identify individuals participating in banned events, including unauthorized Pride marches.
Orbán has defended the legislation as a necessary measure to protect children from what he describes as indoctrinating liberal ideologies and the perceived debauchery of Pride marches in Western Europe.”
https://rmx.news/article/hungarian-parliament-approves-prohibition-of-pride-events-under-child-protection-laws/
Pride precedth a fall.
Room 101, four decades earlier…
‘…There is a Party slogan dealing with the control of the past,’ O’Brien said.
‘Repeat it, if you please.’
‘”Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past,”‘ repeated Winston obediently.
Another Steyn quote
“In the rest of the world – and the rest of the world is where one now goes for demographic energy, industrial production and geopolitical clarity – no one wants what we’re selling. They don’t want it because it leads to societal death – literally. Sometime in the course of the second half of the twenty-first century (demographers dispute whether it will be 2055 or can be postponed to, say, 2080), ethnic Swedes will become a minority in Sweden. How’d that happen? All those millions of colonial subjects from the vast Swedish Empire on every continent making their way to the metropole?
Not so long ago, we would have taken as read that the first requirement of any such thing as Sweden is that it be brimming with Swedes. Now we are all America – ‘proposition nations’: anyone can be Swedish as long as he embraces Swedish ‘values’. ‘Abbahu akbar!’ as my compatriot Laura Rosen Cohen likes to say. In practice, the inverse seems more likely: we will embrace their values. In a telling bit of symbolism, the most famous Swede on the planet, Greta Thunberg, the angry environmentalist turned angrier Hamas groupie, is already wearing a keffiyeh.
It’s odd to become a minority in your own hitherto ethnically homogeneous nation within three generations. And it’s even odder to do so without the subject being raised as part of mainstream public discourse.”
Now we are all America – ‘proposition nations’: anyone can be Swedish as long as he embraces Swedish ‘values’.
America, or at least politically influential parts of it, has/ have a history of being quite violently disposed towards those who “aren’t America.” To paraphrase some German from 1918: “Why does Woodrow Wilson call Wilhelm II. an autocrat despite he has less real powers in Germany than the POTUS has in the USA?”
Start by resisting inappropriate summary labels aka white: I’m not white and thus, by extension, somehow responsible for anything other white people did at any point in time in the past but German¹. Likewise, English people are not white but English. The label white is nothing but an attempt to erase all our hereditary identities in favour of some socially constructed meta-group whose name really just means people we hate, further differentiation not considered necessary.
¹ Certifiedly so, with two grandfathers working for the German state before 1945 and one of them being a professional soldier.
I am English first, White second. White Europeans have distinct cultures, customs, languages and history but we are cousins who are more compatible with one another than we are with more far-flung racial groups. Just look at the outcomes.
You lost me at “This has potentially fatal consequences for trans people.”
They wanted it, and they’re getting it, good and hard.
I have to admit, at least there is a consistency to the socually liberal policy of the last 60 years of pursuing total gender equality.
If two sexes are supposedly equal in every possible way and there is no socially acceptable distinction between them, then it makes absolutely no sense to record or acknowledge a person’s sex.
That’s not my view or my position. I think it’s madness. But one can’t deny the logic and consistency.
That’s crazy because for example in the case of the removal of a tumour from the womb it is necessary to know if the patient has been sterilised because it can lead to the necessity for more complicated surgery and it would be beneficial for the surgeon to know in advance. I don’t know if this story is true in my experience consultants aren’t shy about asking about anything. In essence it is like a military decision you just need to know the facts.
“Consider what another philosopher, Elizabeth Barnes, has said on the matter, not because of her day job but because she has Parkinson’s, although men are much more likely to get it than women, and they need different advice because, for them, the condition has differences in prevalence, symptoms, and disease trajectory. She writes:
We must be brave enough to resist this until the new laws come into being to put us into prison for saying a man/woman can never change sex.
The irony is the mass importation of new cultures where men are dominant and women put back in the shadows but no leftie wants to debate this hot topic.
I hope the repeated references to “biological sex” are simply to distinguish it from “sex” meaning “sexual activity”. Not sure though. “Sex” is a biological term, in this context. There is no such thing as “non-biological sex”.
What more will it take til the people of this country say, enough. We have had enough.