Just a few years ago, there was no such thing as a transsexual movement. Gender dysphoria, in which a person believes that his or her body is not of the correct sex, has long been recognized as a severe, but thankfully extremely rare, mental health condition. But now, the “trans” movement is political, and there is a global effort to vastly overstate the number of people who suffer from this condition.
That is the background to this story from Great Britain: “Controversial census claim of 262,000 trans people downgraded.”
Census figures claiming that there are 262,000 transgender people in England and Wales have been formally downgraded, after fears the question may have been misunderstood.
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[The Office for National Statistics (ONS)] admitted there was the “potential for bias” in answers to the question: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” In the 2021 census, people whose first language was not English were four times more likely to say they were transgender than those with English as their main language.
Not having marinated in the leftist politics of the last few years, those immigrants probably failed completely to understand the question.
The 2021 census, the questionnaire on British society produced every ten years, was the first to explore the issue of gender identity. Of 262,000 people who indicated they were trans, 118,000 did not provide further detail. Some 48,000, or 0.1 per cent of the population aged 16 and over, identified as a trans man, and the same number identified as a trans woman.
0.2 percent of the population is probably a pretty good estimate of the actual “trans” numbers, as inflated by the politics of recent years.
But another data release from the ONS showed that those who spoke English “not well” or “not well at all” were most likely to be counted as transgender, at 2.2 per cent. This compared to 0.4 per cent of those whose main language was English or Welsh, making those who speak English poorly five times more likely to say they were transgender.
Which is obviously not the case. By what is alleged to be sheer coincidence, the wording of the “trans” census question was “very similar to one proposed by transgender campaign group Press For Change in 2007.”
Liberals have mounted campaigns, intended to shame the rest of us, on behalf of ever-smaller slices of the population. That process has come to its logical end point, as the Left’s most prized victim group is now vanishingly small, at nowhere near 1% of the population. I doubt that most people have ever met an actual, clinically “trans” person.
This story from Great Britain is a good reminder to take everything you read about the supposed unprecedented prevalence of “trans” sexuality with several grains of salt. It also reminds us how tragic it is that some of today’s young people are being led astray by the Left’s politically-motivated trans campaign.
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