10. The proposal jettisons sex in favour of gender identity, but in such a muddled way that it doesn't succeed in asking about gender identity in a meaningful way either.
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But of course it depends what is meant by gender identity, and that is far from clear. We shouldn’t try to measure it until we know what we’re trying to capture.
Yes, danger with current conflation goes two ways. (1) most people will answer a question on 'gender' with their sex (using the old convention) but then this is interpreted as meaning everyone has a "gender identity" (although it's not clear what that is).
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(2) some people find it uncomfortable to answer a question about their sex, or they don't believe it's a legitimate concept. You still want to survey these ppl to avoid bias and u still want to know their actual sex.
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Solution might be to use language of "sex assigned at birth" w these ppl to clarify (i.e. "some ppl think of this as sex assigned at birth, it is what was written on yr birth certificate") but not to impose this interpretation on all, since sex is observed at birth, not assigned.
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