Statistical nonsense and the embarrassment of the ONS

The latest Office National Statistics (ONS) census findings would have us believe that we are all trans for 15 minutes

When the trans umbrella became so large it could shield a large country from sunburn, we predicted that problems would follow. First of all there is the non-binary category, adopted by both biological males and females, increasingly in universities and other elite settings, that required them to do absolutely nothing to their appearance, demeanour or legal status to be defined as such. At one stage, they were at the top of the tree in terms of hierarchical oppression: trans people (the old fashioned sort that claimed to be trapped in the wrong body and lived as the opposite sex) apparently did not understand them, leading to accusations of “erasure” of non-binary identities. The fact that nobody knew exactly what their identity was, including the non-binaries, was beside the point.