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Sex, trans rights and the Scottish census

22 January 2022

2:20 AM

22 January 2022

2:20 AM

It takes some doing to make a census interesting. So congratulations to the National Records of Scotland (NRS). NRS, which administers the decennial survey, is facing a judicial review over its guidance on the document. On the question of sex, it states that ‘if you are transgender the answer you give can be different from what is on your birth certificate’.

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