Campaign Group Urges Statistics Watchdog to Investigate ‘Not Fit for Purpose’ Gender-Identity Data

Published on November 20, 2023

The campaign group Sex Matters is urging the statistics regulator to investigate what it calls “not fit for purpose” skewed data on the transgender population. In a letter addressed directly to the head of the Office for Statistical Regulation (OSR) on Sunday, the gender-critical group Sex Matters requested an investigation into the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) gender identity data. In the letter, Sex Matters told OSR boss Ed Humpherson, that it believed that this was driven by the “adoption of concepts and questions promoted by lobby groups that seek to replace sex with gender identity.” The OSR provides “independent regulation of all official statistics produced in the UK.”...

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