It was a voluntary question, but almost everyone answered it. So now we know. In England and Wales, and no one expects the Scottish or Northern Irish figure to be much different, three per cent of people identify as something other than heterosexual, and half of one per cent profess a gender identity other than their sex registered at birth.
Seven of the 10 local authorities with the most non-heterosexuals are in London, while only Brighton and Hove reaches the 10 per cent figure that we had been told since time immemorial was universal. It is only one in 25 across Greater London, where 0.91 per cent, not quite one in 100, has a gender identity different from their biological sex, nevertheless the highest such figure in the country.
Other groups making up three in every 100 people, never mind all of one in every 200, might now begin to agitate for comparable levels of cultural and political attention. Larger groups might call for more.
How do we answer people who say that there are so few people it would apply to, gender self-ID wouldn't matter?
ReplyDeleteOne incident of the violation of women's single-sex spaces would be too many.
DeleteThe Tories look very silly now, same with the Israel Lobby.
ReplyDeleteDoubly so, in fact.
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