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In other words, Professor Michael Briggs believes he can identify trans people on sight, doesn't see trans people when he walks down the street, therefore they don't exist

anchez Manning
19 September 2024 5:30pm
“It’s eminently clear that this is not a huge hub of trans life,” says Prof Michael Biggs of the borough he calls home, Brent in northwest London. “The idea when I walk down the street there that over 1 per cent of the population are trans doesn’t make any sense.”

Yet the Office for National Statistics (ONS) had recorded the area as having the second highest proportion of transgender people in the UK – 1.3 per cent. “I live in Brent and obviously it is not the place with the second most trans people in Britain,” he adds. “That’s ludicrous.”

Biggs not being able to reconcile the data with the reality of everyday life has led – after a long-running campaign, which has come at some personal cost – to the ONS admitting it may have overestimated the number of trans people in the UK.
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Mkansappa.bsky.social

Love when people misunderstand statistics like that. 1% doesn't mean every village has a token trans person lol.

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NBnigel63.bsky.social

'Professor'. 🤔 So, there's an academic environment that currently pays for his gross biases - statistical & social.

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Uunicornsrockuk.bsky.social

I rarely walk anywhere for fear of abuse and attack. I avoid public transport too. I guess he can't spot trans women like me when driving past in my car.

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GSgrudgingsignup.bsky.social

I don't see anyone I think looks like a professor when I walk down the street, so I guess Michael doesn't fucking exist either

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CLhexadecibelle.bsky.social

"we can always tell"

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DAdoublehelix.bsky.social

Biggs has history here... www.oxfordstudent.com/2018/10/26/t...

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NOnateo.bsky.social

'some people may have misunderstood'. I'm sorry, but some people may misunderstand anything and everything. Low bar. This is all over 262k people, approx 0.5% of the population of the UK. That number is fully in line with other estimates in, for example, the US and other countries

But last week Biggs was finally vindicated when a review by the Office for Statistics Regulation concluded that one of the questions in the 2021 census had been confusing, and ruled that the numbers of trans people recorded in the census would no longer be recognised as an “accredited official statistic”. This was the first time in the more than 220-year history of the census that data from it had been downgraded.

The ONS itself admitted that some people may have misunderstood the question “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?”, leading to people recording that they were trans when they were not.

This also vindicated Whitehall sources who, The Telegraph reported last year, said the ONS had “hugely overestimated” the number of trans people in the UK in the census, after the body had admitted it should have carried out “additional probing” before releasing the data.
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Jjemmav.bsky.social

First he thinks all the trans people have actually transitioned (the Q was about whether your identity differs from your assigned sex, not if you've transitioned), he thinks they all feel safe to walk in the street, and then he thinks they are all identifiable on sight. What an imbecile.

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