Remember this?

Or this from Cllr Keeling?

We are indebted to The Spectator for much of the following.

As Cllr Keeling noted, the census revealed that significantly less than half of one percent of the population in England and Wales identified as transgender, that is to say, some 262,000 people plus say roughly 40,000 nor  so (to account for N. Ireland and Scotland. 

This is roughly half of the number that Stonewall were promoting, but still a sizeable number, if a very small percentage. Stonewall, once a major support organisation for the Gay community, now seems to be wholly fixated on trans issues and the money it brings them. 

In an article by Michael Biggs, we discover from the census that there are more trans people in Newham than in Brighton. Newham leads the way again. Although how this happened, we’re not quite sure. Moreover, we discover that one in every 67 Muslims is trans.

This particular revelation should begin to cause some questions to be raised. It is possible that Newham has become the global centre for trans-people escaping the oppressive confines of their home countries and finding refuge in Stratford.

But, if we accept the possibility that the figures might not be completely accurate, it is conceivable that there might be another reason for the numbers.

Biggs notes that the census compilers did not ask a straightforward question. E.g. Are you trans-gender? Instead, they asked “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” This might have been a little confusing for readers whose first language was not English and in a borough where at least 25% were born overseas, that’s a lot of people.

He then compares the numbers of people who identified on the census as transgender with the numbers from each area who signed a petition to reform The Gender Recognition Act.

The staggeringly large trans community in Newham only managed to gather a pitifully small number of signatories and Newham is ranked as 301st (out of 331) boroughs in the country. Brighton, as you would expect topped the poll, some 300 places above Newham. Yet we are led to believe that there are more trans-people in Newham than  Brighton. Ummn? Its not looking quite as convincing.

The suggestion is that the strongest correlation with transgender identification is country of birth, a piece of analysis that the ONS does not seem inclined to do at the moment. However, they have looked at the correlation between identification as transgender and proficiency in English. The results indicate that those with a low proficiency in English (or Welsh) are over five times more likely to identify as trans than the native community. The ONS comment states that “Adults whose main language is not English made up only 10 per cent of the overall population, but according to the census they contributed 29 per cent of the transgender numbers”.

It seems that the constituency that Cllr Keeling was virtue signalling towards, might be somewhat smaller than he had been led to believe.

Ah well... It was a good try.