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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Helen Corbett

Public bodies must not conflate sex with gender in data, report author warns

Clinical diagnoses and safeguarding were highlighted in the report (Alamy/PA) -

Public bodies need to collect data on biological sex “across the board”, the author of a report that flagged the risks of conflating it with gender identity has said.

Individuals have been able to change their gender marker on their NHS records, while crime statistics have recorded some people’s preferred gender rather than their actual sex, Professor Alice Sullivan, who wrote the report commissioned by the previous government, said.

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