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The UK Office for Statistics Regulation is decertifying its 2021 census data on transgender identity, which initially found that a surprisingly high 0.5% of the population identified as a gender other than their sex registered at birth.
BREAKING: Gender identity census figures decertified.@ONS census figures lose status as official statistics.
to Professor Michael Biggs whose work highlighted the problem with the methodology.https://t.co/4xlcG2bOE8
— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) September 12, 2024
Trans activists had celebrated the apparent prevalence of transgender people following the release of the results, but the gender-critical crowd was sceptical. Oddly, non-English speakers were four times as likely to identify as trans compared to the rest of the population, and low-education respondents were more likely to identify as trans than those with university degrees. Rather than asking “Are you transgender?” the census asked “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” Who could be confused by that?
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