Campaign Group Urges Statistics Watchdog to Investigate ‘Not Fit for Purpose’ Gender-Identity Data

There are major concerns that census data may have drastically overestimated the number of trans people in England and Wales.

File photo of a sign for unisex non-binary gender neutral toilet. Victoria Jones/PA Wire

The campaign group Sex Matters is urging the statistics regulator to investigate what it calls “not fit for purpose” skewed data on the transgender population.

In a letter addressed directly to the head of the Office for Statistical Regulation (OSR) on Sunday, the gender-critical group Sex Matters requested an investigation into the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) gender identity data.