Two questionnaires administered by Public Health England previously sought to determine how patterns of STDs differ between men and women and between heterosexual and homosexual groups. But following consultation with transgender groups, respondents are no longer asked about the sex they were born but instead whether they ‘identify’ as male or female.

Has anyone asked them to clarify what they're proposing by changing demographics? Anyone put them on the spot, and asked how self-identification matters when the facts being examined are male/female and/or sexuality-based?

it ‘will skew the data as well as putting people at risk’ and predicted ‘a rise in the numbers of those registered as women with HIV, when in fact they are male-bodied’.

Yup.