Professor Alice Sullivan is a social scientist.

She has written about whether the UK census should continue to collect accurate information on people's sex.

In 2020 you have to be brave to write about this. https://twitter.com/SianGriffiths6/status/1264370472482942978

Here is her paper in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645579.2020.1768346?journalCode=tsrm20

Or you can read the SSRN version for free here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3557822

Alice highlights the post-modern fallacies about sex that are undermining the basic business of collecting sex disaggregated statistics

Last year she coordinated a letter from 80 quantitative social scientists to the @ONS to ask them to keep collecting accurate sex data.

The signatories had to be brave to do it.

https://www.parliament.scot/General%20Documents/CTEEA_2019.12.18_Sullivan.pdf

One who wouldnt said “W a v heavy heart I have chosen to swallow my integrity on this particular issue & keep my head down. I dont like doing this, I dont like how it feels. I dont like the implications of my inaction for social
justice in general or gender issues in particular.”

The CEO of The National Centre for Social Research
@NatCen wrote to staff and recommended they not sign the letter for fear of causing offence. https://twitter.com/johnarmstrong5/status/1264487744677588992

Alice was invited to speak at a research methods seminar on sex and gender issues by @NatCen, but other panelist(s) threatened to pull and a staff group said she had “anti-trans views” (they gave no evidence)

The event was cancelled rather than allow @ProfAliceS to speak.

People who advocate the importance of sex as a category are now commonly accused of transphobia, regardless of their commitment human rights of trans people.

This is bad for evidence-based policy making, in general, and in particular in relation to women and girls