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The ONS finally admits to flawed trans population statistics

15 September 2024

10:30 PM

15 September 2024

10:30 PM

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has finally admitted that the 2021 census figures on the transgender population of England and Wales are irredeemably flawed. They no longer count as ‘accredited official statistics’. This is the first time that data from the decennial census – the backbone of British statistics since 1801 – has been downgraded.

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