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Motion #E16
Note from SOC – One part of this motion is
Out of Order, indicated using text struck
through, on the basis that it would be of
no consequential effect
Sex refers to biology which is immutable, gender is a social construction. Discrimination against women may be based on their perceived sex, however there are aspects of discrimination females face based on sex not gender.
To address discrimination it is imperative that accurate sex-segregated data is collected.
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Women’s Rights
The Green Party calls for a review of the language used in law, in government bodies and NGOs to ensure that sex and gender are not conflated.
Gender is a term that cannot easily be defined in law, whereas sex has a clear meaning, and as the basis of female oppression is essential to be recorded in many circumstances.
Therefore when data is being collected and analysed to form policy in relation to women, attention should be paid to whether the data is segregated by sex or by gender, and sex segregated data must be collected in order to monitor the effects of biological sex with regard to women’s position in society.
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Delete: “Gender is a term that cannot easily be defined in law, whereas sex has a clear meaning, and as the basis of female oppression is essential to be recorded in many circumstances.”
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The words Sex and Gender are used seemingly interchangeably in key equalities legislation and guidance.
The Green Party recognises the need for clarity, and the value of data that relates to both physiological sex, and gender identity. At present, it is incredibly difficult to discern statistical differences based on physiological sex and gender identity, resulting in erroneous analyses of existing data being made, such as when The Times of London published inaccurate claims that 100% of inmates in women’s prisons, convicted of rape, were transgender women (since retracted with a correction).
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Delete:
Therefore when data is being collected and analysed to form policy in relation to women, attention should be paid to whether the data is segregated by sex or by gender, and sex segregated data must be collected in order to monitor the effects of biological sex with regard to women’s position in society.
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Therefore when data is being collected and analysed to form policy in relation to sex or gender, attention should be paid to exactly what data is being collected, and clear guidance to respondents as to what data is being requested, with clear definitions and distinctions explained. Where practical and proportional, data related to both sex and gender should be collected, in order to ensure that conflations between the two (eg, the conflation of transgender women with men) in key statistical data, and in particular data pertaining to crime, do not take place.
For clarity:
Female is used to refer to sex rather than gender in this motion.