This week I received a letter from my local council containing a rather dry consultation on how to negotiate a cut imposed on them from on high.
However, there was a rather interesting error (corrected in another letter the following day) on their equality questionnaire...
(Helpful hint: look at the first question)
Needless to say, the corrected version doesn't remove the additional option but replaces it:
Still, considering the questionnaire as a whole is optional, it's certainly interesting they've kept an additional option rather than just dispense with it entirely (as is the case on almost every other form you're ever likely to fill in).
Comments
How about...
...I prefer not to say that I don't know what gender I am?
Love, Andrea Lena
Fits under the umbrella...
"Prefer not to say" is a great umbrella that could mean absolutely anything. It could mean the respondee simply doesn't wish to disclose their gender at all, but is quite cisgender. It could mean they are transsexual and prefer not to say either their legal gender because it simply is untrue, or their real gender simply because it's not legal, or it could mean they are genderqueer and prefer not to say they're neither male nor female.
Of course... There really should be a fourth option of genderqueers who are out and proud...
Anyway... the error was pretty telling to me about how they really feel about us, still, at least in the OP's locality.
Abigail Drew.
Interesting Error
Might be their way of not discriminating by gender.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Eh?
Are you male or female? If you say no, what happens then? Don't they usually ask you to tick a box of male or female?
Angharad
Bad Testing
Whenever I was making up a multiple choice test, I always included 'All of the above' as well as 'None of the above.' I think it would have been more interesting if these folks had done the same.
Nancy Cole
"You may be what you resolve to be."
T.J. Jackson
Well the fourth option could also be for the intersexed
... with a check box that just says 'yes', next to it, if one wants to be cheeky :)
Kim
Couldn't the Third Option...
Couldn't the third option be "Yes"?