“font-size: 11pt”>In justification for focusing on gender instead of sex, Stats NZ claims that the very concept of female or male bodies is a “Eurocentric model and construct”.
Sit back and marvel at how people – well-meaning intelligent people – can lose their minds in the face of the latest supposedly progressive ideology.
Stats NZ is motivated by a desire to collect data in an ‘inclusive’ way, meaning that everyone has a box they can tick that corresponds to how they feel about themselves. Inclusion would be achieved more accurately, however, by having a biological sex question followed by a gender identity question, and having such a question would no doubt be a positive change, providing more information and understanding of our community.
By asking the question the other way around, Stats NZ is requiring respondents to agree with the quasi-religious idea that everyone has a gender identity. The definition given in the standard that “Gender identity refers to a person’s internal and individual experience of gender” is so vague and circular that it is surprising a body tasked with collecting facts about a population would even consider it as a valid data point.
A further indignity to most of the population is that sex information is to be categorised as ‘cis’ or ‘trans’ man or woman, or non-binary. Although the standard warns that this classification “does not ascribe an identity to someone”, how did Stats NZ conclude that it is non-discriminatory and inclusive for the vast majority of people to suddenly be categorised, without consent, into a subset of their own sex?
While affirming that “gender, sex and sexual identity are not interchangeable”, this new standard officially reinforces the ideological notion that what an individual ‘feels’ about their gender is more important than the objective reality of their biological sex.
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