The Office for National Statistics made the news last year when they “hugely overestimated” the number of transgender people in the UK. The finding that the numbers were particularly high in London boroughs like Newham and Brent, where large numbers of non-English speakers reside, was suspected to be less because of the number of trans Muslims, more the bafflement caused by the question, “is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?”.
Women working for the Office for National Statistics face disciplinary action if they object to male-born colleagues using single-sex lavatories and changing rooms, documents leaked to The Sunday Telegraph reveal.
A cache of HR policies, internal communications and posts from the ONS intranet show that the statistics body has been subject to “institutional capture” by trans activists, gender-critical campaigners have alleged....
A set of ONS resources on “Gender Identity and Transitioning at Work” includes a manager’s checklist for supporting a transitioning employee with a section headed “use of single-sex facilities”.
It says: “Have you agreed when the employee will start to use single-sex facilities, such as toilets and changing rooms, appropriate to their acquired gender? This will usually be on the first day of transition.”
The document says that “if colleagues object to sharing facilities with employees going through transition, the situation should be dealt with through communication, discussion and education.
“If colleagues persist with unreasonable objections you may need to manage the situation via grievance or disciplinary procedures.”...
The policy states that “all trans people should be treated according to the gender in which they identify, irrespective of their legal gender status under the Gender Recognition Act 2004” and that “although not covered by the Gender Recognition Act (2004), ONS accepts that it is good practice to treat a transgender person who does not hold a GRC in the same way as a person who does”.
Sex Matters said both points “go far beyond the law, disregarding the impact on other employees”.
It also said that leaked posts from the ONS intranet showed “an organisation that has put transgender identities and feelings before everything – including accuracy”....
Fiona McAnena, Sex Matters’ director of campaigns, said: “The ONS staff documents that have been leaked are inaccurate, ideologically driven and inflammatory. This is what institutional capture looks like.”
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