What is the difference between a girl and a young woman or even female?

This is ridiculous

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Great post Jords, makes sense

basically they just copied the new Facebook gender choices i think, so i doubt the UK government spent much time or money on this change.

Yes they are wasting money, it will be collated, and published and binned and no funding will be available. I'm glad we agree on this

They are just combining age with gender to come up with more and more titles. Age should be covered in the next question on the survey :joker:

dont think any of the 24 define me so I guess im just "other".

in my day you were a boy a girl a **** (sounds like roof) or a lezza

why change a great system like that?

its madness


note: not that there is anything wrong with being a **** or a lezza

but Im a boy and a **** I hope the questionnaires were multiple-answer :oh:

At 13 are you really suppose to make those concrete distinctions? They could be changing daily, or hourly. Stupid, non news mail item to fill the space usually reserved for news.

What a lot of utter bollocks

i love your sarcastic/ironic sense of humor.

I went to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert last Saturday night and I'd rather like to be a drag queen.

Hasn't this been rumoured to happen since like 2014? Sounds like DM, as always, are feeding off scraps

Why don't they just have an 'other' option where people can then put in a box what they are? This seems so far fetched and Inefficient, and the 'other' option opens it up to everyone so people can't complain that their gender isn't on there?

Yup, I agree with pretty much all of this.

And maybe I am getting 'sex' and 'gender' mixed up, but if so, why are there both 'sex' and 'gender' answers on the same questionnaire? You have the male and female options...but then all of the other random things added on. This is part of the reason I think it will just be confusing for teens. If someone is (for example demi-girl) they are BOTH female and demi-girl surely? So many of the options appear to be personality traits and nothing at all to do with actual gender.

Showed this to my partner and he said that before long, you won't be able to ask the sex of your baby...or to refer to it as a boy or a girl just incase in a few years it turns out that in their head they are not a boy or a girl. Might sound dramatic but this does seem to be the way things are going :S

'what's the gender of your baby'
'LOBSTER YOU CISGENDER ****'

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When they get a scan in the womb ... is it a boy, girl or any of the other possible options, and the hospital is sued 18 years later for giving the wrong answer :joker:

I'm gonna be a Young Man all my life.

Who's stopping you?

well some women smelling like rotten seafood is usually something straight men say... i guess they would know, they do get up close and personal with the cisgender female parts...

Nature

no it's not. nature didn't stop you from making your own name and identity and talking on this very unnatural american invention THE INTERNET, Nature isn't stopping anyone from doing anything.

I don't see the problem, it's just a survey. Yes there are a lot of options, but does it not say in the article that this is just a draft? Obviously for the draft they are going to include all the options they can initially think of, but it's likely that the final list of options will be more concise. I think it's interesting research to do anyway because as some people have commented, when they were growing up it was just male/female/gay or whatever, but as we know, there are many people who fall outside of those catagories who have struggled in life as a result. It's easy to ignore that these people exist and have existed because in the past they've been pushed into the shadows, but they do exist. So why not actively try and identify how young people view themselves in terms of gender, if it ends up helping some of them. It's really not going to harm anyone, and it's not going to confuse anyone. If someone taking this survey views themselves as male, they will tick the 'male' option, no harm done. And I don't think much research has been done in this area before so of course it will start off a bit rocky, and there will be a lot of uncertainty as to what gender options should be included, but that will all come together over time. Society's attitudes towards gender and identity are progressing and this is simply a reflection of that. It's not perfect yet but it's a great start.