Government asked to reject ‘biased’ review by academic with ties to gender-critical group

Two LGBTQ+ organisations have rejected the conclusion of the Sullivan Review into how data and statistics record gender identity and “biological sex”, describing it as biased due to the fact the academic behind the review is a member of a gender-critical group’s advisory board.

Led by sociology professor Alice Sullivan, the independent review into the way UK public bodies record people’s gender identity was published on Wednesday (19 March).

The report, commissioned by the former Conservative government, said that methods of recording gender in data sets could lead to what Sullivan described as a “widespread loss of data on sex”.

She recommended instead that researchers focus on collecting “biological sex” data by default, in all research studies, which she said should aim for a “50-50 sex

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