An official report in the UK often found the registration of the biological sex of individuals and their sexual identity is unclear or mixed, causing confusion and potential risks, for example in health care and protection.
the reviewAlice Sullivan, a professor of sociology and research at College University in London, said the directives should be updated to ensure that both groups of data are registered in a clear and distinctive way.
Sullivan said that the use of “sex” began to use a term in the 1990s and became increasingly common, which led to what she described as “a large -scale sexual loss of sex.”
The report said that the lack of clear guidance on how to register these matters has led to the development of individual organizations often their own systems, some of which were mixed with sexual and sexual identity, which makes it impossible to track future results of certain groups, including people who have mixed gender identities.
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4 program today, Sullivan said that some crime statistics recorded the preferred sex of people, instead of their gender, and that people were able to change their gender mark in NHS records.
She said: “This confusion about the word sex, which I think everyone used to get to know it simply a synonym for sex, and has become something else – it has become a way to record various gender identities.”
“What I have argued in this report is that sex is really important, we must record it by default – it is also possible to record various identities of sexually transformers and sex on this occasion.
“There is no reason to see this as a comparison between the two. They are two distinguished variables.”
Report It was assigned A little more than a year ago by the conservative government, with expectation that it will make reports by August last year. However, after the elections, they were now released.
The Ministry of Health said that it will urgently consider what was called “dangerous results.”
Luke Pollard, the defense minister who was talking about the government on Thursday morning, said he was “vital” that collecting data on this improvement.
The study concluded, based on the review of evidence and practices, as well as interviews with organizations, including government departments, organizers and other bodies, that “the meaning of sex is no longer stable in administrative or main survey data.”
This continued: “This instability is clear through the major policy areas including health and justice. This has led to a wide range of data from sex. In some cases, data loss of sex poses risks to individuals. This is particularly evident in the field of health and social care. These risks are especially high in the case of minors.”
Another issue that has been highlighted is the lack of clarity on how to collect specific reports or polls on data about sex or biological sex. In some cases, lush data in IT systems have been included, making discrimination less clear.
Among a series of recommendations, he said that the “virtual target” of any such question must be biological sex at birth, without any integration between sexual identity, including for people with gender recognition certificate.
He also said that NHS should stop giving people new NHS numbers with sex -changed signs, saying this may endanger people in areas such as examination.
The organizations called for a strong and strong approach to the topic, saying that there is evidence of a “party climate” on some issues, including gender, within the National Statistics Office (ONS), the official data collection body.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technology said: “This government is clear that collecting accurate and self -data is vital in research and operating effective public services, especially when it comes to sex.
“We are grateful to Professor Sullivan for her work, which has been shared with relevant government departments and public organizations, including ONS.”
Management spokesman health And social welfare said: “There are new and serious results in this report that the administration will investigate urgently with the gravity they deserve, as we fix sexual identity services in all fields.”
