Meeting for Sufferings: Tabular statement concern

A suggestion has been made for a change to the data collected in tabular statements

Gloucestershire Area Meeting brought to Meeting for Sufferings the suggestion that the Religious Society of Friends might cease to ask its members and attenders to declare a specific gender in forthcoming tabular statements.

The invitation to consider the idea, contained in a minute for Sufferings, followed discernment among Friends at Cheltenham Meeting and in a Threshing Meeting held in October 2014. The concern came from a membership clerk, who asked why she should ‘require Friends to tick a box as to their gender?’

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