Jeremy Stangroom

I hadn't seen this Gender Identity Report survey thing until this morning. The survey questions - Appendix 1 - are absolutely risibly terrible. http://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/documents/s113794/2019.04%20Gender%20Identity%20Report.pdf …

Qu 1: A person may come to feel that their gender is different from that assigned to them at birth? Well maybe, certainly seems to be the case, but so what - people come to feel all sorts of things about all sorts of things. Language - "assigned to them at birth" - is biased.

Qu 2: A person who consistently identifies in a gender which is different to the one they were assigned at birth should be accepted by society in their stated gender identity? Same biased language. Also hopelessly vague.

Qu 3. A person who consistently identifies in a gender which is different to the one they were assigned at birth should be able to access services commonly provided to the gender with which they now identify? Which services exactly? The question needs to be much more specific.

Also, the question is too blunt. It wouldn't be inconsistent for a person to think that trans women should be able to access all services provided to women, except for those which aim to mitigate against sexual trauma, male violence, etc.

Qu 4. Where access to particular services or facilities are restricted by gender, the City Corphas it in mind the restriction should relate to the gender with which the service user consistently identifies now, regardless of whether that is the gender they were assigned at birth.

Qu 5: The City Corp proposes not asking service users to provide ‘proof’ of their gender identity at single gender services & facilities but would rely on each service user to self-identify their gender. Or to put it another way - are you ok with abolishing single sex services?