Henness’s method is quirky but revealing. He starts the application process for jobs in order to receive the equality-monitoring form – and then writes to the employer and tweets about what he finds. Few, it has to be said, bother to reply, so he has created a website to publicise his findings and, with luck, increase the pressure. He has semi-applied for more than 200 jobs and been asked to select his ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity’ from some weird and wonderful menus. The silliest was probably from Kent and Essex police: female; gender fluid; intersex; male; non-binary; prefer not to say;
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