Gender choices for the 2021 census

[Mart 'n' Al]

If anyone asks, it's my GGG grandfather.  He was one of the first to pose for coloured photos.

Martin

[Redroger]

I've no problems with gender. After DNA tests it's ethnicity that might be problematic. Seriously considering doubtful, dubious, or your guess is as good as mine. Since I shall be 81 when the census is taken it may well be my last shot, so I want to go out with a bang

[BushInn1746]

On a similar note, filling out a form from an Australian government department, instead of the question "married, de facto, or single" there were two choices, single or partnered.
Really? I think the world was better when PC meant a computer, and we still had the ability to laugh at ourselves.

After using Free BMD, when doing 19th Century Male name GRO searches on gov.uk (since it started online) and clicking the button, the page keeps coming up you have not specified Male or Female.

My old brain will eventually get used to an extra button to choose Male/Female.

Mark

[Regorian]

Yes, of course, sex is male or female, nothing else. Gender is more fluid and depends on the individual's self perception. No harm in that. 

[Treetotal]

I often wonder why it's okay for girls to have short hair and wear trousers to school and it be acceptable but not okay for boys to have long hair and wear skirts 
Carol

[Viktoria]

Well one school did that, well the boys, just to make a point ,mind you as a woman teacher said at our local High School when skirts were changed for trousers,to see hundreds of overweight girls sitting on the floor during assembly in skirts shorter than pelmets was enough to make anyone ill,.
especially the teachers on the stage .
Well a new problem has arisen,now male ballet dancers can play hitherto female parts the question arises who lifts who?( whom).
There was a good part of a programme debating that last week, Radio  4.
I mean we have only Brexit and Turkey fighting the Kurds who have helped us ,the weather etc to worry about .
Viktoria.

[Mart 'n' Al]

TreeTotal, as a conformist, I am unable to answer that.  Girls are required to keep their hair under control, whereas long-haired boys do want to be flamboyant about it.  Boy-buns are not a good look.

Martin

[Greensleeves]

Boy-buns are not a good look.

I think lads with their hair in high buns in the manner of oriental men look absolutely stunning.  I've seen so many of these youngsters wearing their hair thus this summer, and I think it's great.  Those of us who were young in the 60s, I'm sure, will remember that we were the ones who threw out the traditional norms, so the lads could grow their hair long, and the girls could wear trousers to work.  I think people should be able to express themselves freely -  I never could understand in the '60s why crusty old blokes used to have fits of apoplexy and shout at my male friends who were  wearing loons, and velvet jackets with gold braid, with hair below their shoulders.  Why should it matter what others wear, if it doesn't conform to what we like.  I don't wear twin-sets and pearls, but I would fight for the right of others to wear them, be they male or female. 

[Mike in Cumbria]

Not a good look?
Looks pretty good to me.

Mind you, these days I'd be happy with any hair.