Whistleblowers wanted!
This is hilarious. I just got this wonderful example of institutional capture from a subscriber.
“Thought you might like to see the utterly doolally diversity monitoring form for accreditation at this year's London Film Festival. Sadly there was no option among the 22 'gender' choices for what I really wanted to say. Given that this year's festival is being conducted entirely online, I'm wondering about the value of gathering so much intricate (some might say prurient!) information about a tiny fraction of the viewers.”
I don’t know why, but I laughed out loud when I got to ‘prefer not to say’.
If your employer is buying into bollocks like this, and you’re not in a safe position to confront them yourself, please send things like the above to me and I’ll publish it with whatever credit you like.
With all the gender-variables & accompanying flags, it reminds me of Pokémon...in this case:
Doltémon - gotta hatch'em all.
I'm pretty sure it's been pointed out time and again that it isn't legal to collect and store such sensitive information. You can ask sex under gdpr and gender reassignment but you can't just ask a whole load of random garbage and then store the results. But given the dreadful advice organisations have been given for years by government departments on this issue, it's hardly surprising really. And are there pronouns for every single one?