Parliamentary security vetting: ‘Is your father male?’

Westminster vetting procedures have embraced radical transgender ideology.

The Daily Mail revealed that a new online form asks staff whether their father or mother is ‘male’, ‘female’ or ‘other’.

One staff member told the Mail: “I found it baffling to be asked what gender my birth father is when completing the parliamentary security vetting form”, adding: “There is only one possible answer”.

‘Baffling’

Former Education Minister Brendan Clarke-Smith MP called it “woke nonsense”.

Clarke-Smith said: “I’m not sure how somebody’s father self-identifies is really relevant on a security check either. It’s tick box meets Pandora’s box.”

A House of Commons spokesman told the newspaper that Parliament has a “robust security vetting procedures, based on good practice and ensuring a consistent approach”.

‘Binary and immutable’

Late last year, the Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN) was launched with a commitment to protecting the belief that “biological sex is binary and immutable” and that “biological sex matters for both women and men in our everyday lives”.

The cross-government network, which is open to all UK civil servants and public sector staff, said, “biological sex must not be conflated with, or replaced by, the concepts of gender or gender identity”.