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Ross Clark

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17:45 EST, 30 July 2012

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Filling in a form about your broadband? Then you’ll be asked if you’re transgender. ROSS CLARK on the madness of the State’s latest obsession

Boundaries: When filling in forms, we are increasingly being given the option to disclose whether we are transgender

Anyone replying to the Isle of Wight Council’s questionnaire on the provision of super-fast broadband won’t be surprised to be asked to provide details of their current broadband speed, or for a list of the reasons why they use the internet.

They might be puzzled, however, to come across question number 16, asking them: ‘Which of the following describes how you think of yourself: Male? Female? In another way?’

The bafflement will deepen when they reach question number 20, asking: ‘Have you ever undertaken, or are you undertaking, gender reassignment?’

What on earth has that got to do with broadband speeds?

And
it isn’t just on the Isle of Wight. Come into contact with any public
sector body and you are likely to face a similar barrage of questions.
Apply for a job as a customer service assistant on East Coast Trains and
you are asked: ‘Do

After years of demanding to know our ethnic identity and sexual orientation, public bodies have become obsessed with collecting data on whether or not we’ve had a sex change.

The Isle of Wight’s bizarre questionnaire is a symptom of a growing fear of the transsexual rights lobby among public bodies. 

In the Mail last week, 16-year-old transgender pupil Ashlyn Parram described how he and his mother had forced his Lincolnshire school to allow him to sit an exam wearing a dress rather than school uniform. The headmaster, they said, backed down as soon as he was shown a copy of the Equality Act 2010 that stated he had to be treated the same as other pupils.

It echoes a decision announced this week by Oxford University to accommodate transgender students by allowing men to wear skirts as formal attire to sit exams.

Gender dysmorphia — where an individual feels they were born the wrong sex — is a recognised medical condition and one that, happily, modern medicine can do something about.

Society should, of course, never tolerate the bullying of people who undertake transgender surgery or cross-dress, any more than it should tolerate people being bullied over their race, sexual orientation or anything else.

Progress: Gender dysmorphia is a recognised medical condition and is being explored with modern medicine

But do we really need an industry of public sector busybodies counting up the number of transsexuals clipping tickets on trains, or asking us intimate questions when we just want to tell them about our broadband experience?

Even Press For Change, a pressure group which campaigns on behalf of transgender people, advises employers: ‘There are some occasions when monitoring for trans people should never be undertaken, such as during the recruitment process . . .

‘The experience is that obtaining employment can be difficult enough, and anything which puts the spectre of asking about trans status into the recruitment process is likely to drive trans people away.’

But they had not reckoned with the zeal of Harriet Harman, who as Labour leader pushed through the Equality Act 2010. This placed a ‘general equality duty’ on public-sector bodies to ‘analyse the effect of your organisation’s functions on all protected groups’, one of which is transgender people.

The law doesn’t explicitly demand that public sector bodies ask staff, clients and job applicants whether they are transgender.

However, the Equality and Human Rights Commission advises public sector bodies with more than 150 staff that — in order to comply with the Act — they will be expected to produce data relating to the success rate of job applicants, the take-up of training opportunities, and grievance and dismissal.

In other words, public sector bodies are effectively obliged to ask for such information.

Given the tiny number of transgender individuals, it is questionable whether any useful conclusions could ever be gleaned from such data.

Zeal: Harriet Harman pushed through the Equality Act in 2010 which placed a ‘general equality duty’ on public-sector bodies

Only 300 people a year apply to the Gender Recognition Panel — a quango established in 2004 to enable people to obtain revised birth certificates after transgender surgery.

Yet the equality industry seems desperate to try to prove that society is awash with people secretly harbouring a desire to change sex.

A survey of Scottish GPs published in
the British Journal of General Practice in 1999 estimated that eight
people in every 100,000 had expressed some degree of gender dysmorphia.

This
suggests that the number of people in Britain who believe they had been
born the wrong sex could be around 5,000. In 2009, however, a Home
Office-funded study suddenly inflated that estimate a hundred-fold.

The study, Gender Variance In The UK,
was carried out by pressure group the Gender Identity Research and
Education Society (Gires). It claimed that between 300,000 and 500,000
Britons ‘have experienced some degree of gender variance’, up to 90,000
of whom desire a full sex-change.

It is a preposterous figure, and, incredibly, it is one that is based on dubious estimates of the number of cross-dressers who attend transvestite clubs in the U.S.

Gires claimed that a ‘reasonable and conservative assumption’ was that 1 per cent of British men cross-dress, and that of these, 19 per cent desire a full sex change. These figures derive partly from an internet article, How Frequently Does Transsexualisation Occur, by Lynn Conway, a transsexual rights campaigner from Michigan.

Ms Conway’s article, however, offers only the assertion — without any evidence — that ‘most transgender activist groups in the U.S. estimate that about one to two per cent of all people have strong transgender feelings’.

As for the estimate of how many cross-dressers harbour desires to undergo a full sex change, this seems to have been arrived at through the opinion of unnamed cross-dressers — Conway says only that ‘these numbers are what you hear if you simply ask cross-dressers who are long experienced in these clubs’ — and by the number of people logging onto a transsexual dating website called Fiona’s Fantasyland.

Sexual orientation: In 2010, the Office of National Statistics found only 1.5% of the population chose to identify themselves as being lesbian, gay or bisexual

What on Earth is the Home Office doing paying for studies that rely on such claptrap? 

The figures arrived at by Gires are not merely out of step with previous research, they are far out of line with NHS data which showed that 1,639 patients were referred to NHS or private specialists for treatment for gender dysmorphia in 2008 — and even that does not allow for double-counting of individuals who sought two or more opinions.

In other words, if there is a large population of people harbouring a desire to change sex, they don’t feel strongly enough to take medical advice.

What has happened with the transgender lobby is similar to what happened with estimates of the lesbian, gay and bisexual population in recent years. Since the Seventies, the gay rights lobby has promoted the idea that one in ten of the population is gay — a figure derived from an over-enthusiastic reading of the long-discredited works of U.S. social scientist Alfred Kinsey.

Yet when, in 2010, the Office of National Statistics surveyed the UK population, it found only 1.5  per cent of the population chose to identify themselves as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.

Exaggeration has worked for the Transgender lobby. It succeeded in gaining transsexuals recognition as a protected group under the Equality Act, ensuring that those who feel they have encountered prejudice may seek compensation through employment tribunals.

It has also persuaded the Government to come up with a ‘Transgender Action Plan’. Transgender advisers have been rushed into JobCentres, transsexualism has been given a more prominent role in Personal, Social and Health Education lessons in schools, and council housing departments and housing associations have been ordered to adapt policies to the needs of transgender individuals.

Yet there are already more than 30 national charities, self-help groups and other organisations — as well as 100 more local groups — that offer support.

The truth is that those who preach ‘equality’ have, in practice, brought about the very opposite: a world where public authorities pigeonhole us all into categories, self-defined by pressure groups, who can then be picked out for favoured treatment.

How much fairer it would be if the state would keep its nose out of our private lives and treat us all as equal citizens.

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