[mrelectric]

I don't think op was anti trans, rather than pointing out something that affects statistics. Real world example - I have a friend who writes smut under female pen name and identifies as woman on his social networks and towards the publishers because he realized his sales got 10x once he used female name.

[JackMorgan]

I wish all my readers would be as generous a reader as you are! That is a very interesting angle indeed, and if it is what the grandparent comment intended, I misunderstood.

[prepend]

I thought it was more like a self reporting thing be a measured. Having a survey with self reporting is probably less accurate than just using someone’s HR record. Although I think the accuracy gain would be from having greater completeness due to less non-reporting than any discrepancy between birth sex and gender.

[matthewmacleod]

I don’t think anyone quoting the single word “identified” is intending to make a quite possibly interesting or nuanced point about their experience of the industry, no.

If you have an interesting point to raise, or a constructive question or criticism to make, as a good-faith commenter you should do so. If you choose not to, I think it’s fair to assume you’re not acting in good faith.