Brief thread. Short story: some anti-trans academics bullied the Office for National Statistics into de-recognising trans people on the consensus as an 'accredited official statistic'
JFC. Literally "the census doesn't match my personal perspective on what people are like, so the census must be wrong". "Immigrants can't be trans." Absolutely deranged.
Quite literal "censorship." Evil AND pathetic.
He definitely doesn't believe that I exist. I'm not the sort of person who comes out as transgender in America. I'm from a deeply conservative Christian cultural milieu. I was raised in Florida. "They don't make trans people in Florida. It's *illegal!*" ~this guy probably
What's he a professor of? Cause he seems to be a professor of bumfuck nothing
I'm pretty sure that right wing bigots will have been freaking out and attacking the ONS over diversity related questions and saying they're corrupting the process since they were first introduced.
I'm only dirprises he didn't use the phrase "Basian priority" like a common David Brooks
Presumably they’ll be after the Scottish census too. It might be trickier (for an honest researcher) as immigration is lower. Also as trans status is found more often in young people that doesn’t fit (is 16-24 really the group least likely to understand). www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-results...
Telegraph is a rag for posh twats.
Terf Island terfing. Quelle surprise 😣
Utterly bizarre too to think they must be evenly distributed throughout the country too. Maybe they avoid him. Census data showed here being highest pop % in scotland as trans probably due to unis and game industry etc. Some hobbies/communities I meet more (out) trans folks than others