Trans is a foreign language

[quackhandle]

I remember back in the day on Saturday mornings I used to watch Trans World Sports.

I think it will make a come back however in a vastly different context.

qh

[northernladuk]

It found people with a foreign first language were four times more likely to say they were ‘trans’ than those who have English as their main language.
Areas with big, religiously conservative migrant populations, such as Brent and Newham in London, were found to have higher numbers of trans people than Brighton.

Isn't that because it's the basis of their asylum claim so they have to keep the pretence up on anything they fill in just in case?

[Paddy]

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-question.html

UK's trans population may be smaller than first thought as Census figure axed over confusing question
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The watchdog said that, by wording the question this way rather than the simpler ‘Are you transgender?’, the survey had confused those whose first language is not English.

It found people with a foreign first language were four times more likely to say they were ‘trans’ than those who have English as their main language. Areas with big, religiously conservative migrant populations, such as Brent and Newham in London, were found to have higher numbers of trans people than Brighton.

ask the wrong question get the wrong answer.