70 Percent of ‘Transgender’ People May Have Been Miscategorised, Research Says

Almost 70 percent of those counted as “transgender” in the 2021 census for England and Wales could have been miscategorised, according to research published on April 19. The paper, published in the Sociology Journal, said only 80,000 responses, or 30.5 percent, out of the 262,000 that have been classified as being from transgender-identifying people by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), should have been accepted as valid. Author Michael Biggs, associate professor in sociology at the University of Oxford, said “spurious” results from the census were “produced by a flawed question, which originated with a transgender campaigning organization.” He also suggested the ONS has overlooked how non-trans-identifying people would have been confused by the questions, resulting in “false positives” that may have seriously inflated the size of the trans-identifying population....