Alastair Gilbert
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Alastair Gilbert commented,
The issue I have with that advice is I have to put male or female, those being the only options in the ILR. 'Whatever the learner says' opens a much wider field of options. When we ask the learner to pick one of two binary options (and it causes offence) our approach has been to quote the ILR definition of legal sex. This usually works reasonably well, if only in the sense of shifting the blame to the DfE. It does help if our staff are consistent in how they interpret legal sex, however.
The issue I have with that advice is I have to put male or female, those being the only options in the ILR. 'Whatever the learner says' opens a much wider field of options. When we ask the learner ...