Monday 6 July 2009

Moi?

People have been responding to a Conwy County Council survey about their plans for houses and other buildings in its draft local development plan until 2022 and respondents are also asked to fill in a questionnaire on an inserted A4 sheet, ostensibly for “Equal Opportunities Monitoring which asks if you are “heterosexual, lesbian, bisexual, gay or ‘do not wish to say’? and "Do you live full-time in the gender role opposite to that assigned at birth?”

The remainder of the survey tries to find out about Conwy residents’ religion or ethnicity including: ‘White – Welsh’ and ‘White – English’.

In an age when intrusiveness is prevalent and almost incomprehensible questions such as ‘Do you live full-time in the gender role opposite to that assigned at birth?' folk can be forgiven for wishing to commit acts of mayhem on those individuals responsible for such travesties. However, Conwy CC seems bent - if you'll excuse the verb in question - on being as unsubtle, intrusive and plain daft as you can get, even in this day and age. And we're paying for this?

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