Scotland backtracks on plan to include non-binary option on next census

Aug 11, 2019 by

by Vic Parsons, Pink News:

National Records of Scotland (NRS) had proposed to add a third option that would have included non-binary transgender people’s identities in the census for the first time.

But on 7 August, NRS posted a statement online that said after “careful consideration” it would “continue with a binary sex question in Scotland’s 2021 Census.”

This means the 2021 census will still only provide “male” or “female” options when asking for the sex of respondents.

James Morton of the Scottish Trans Alliance told The Guardian: “In an ideal world, we would have loved to see the addition of an answer option for non-binary trans people. However, the key issue is protecting the existing rights of trans women and trans men to answer the census with the self-identified sex in which they live.

“When combined with the additional voluntary trans status question, the self-ID sex question gives the best quality data and for the first time will enable census data comparisons between trans women, trans men, and other women and men.”

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