Scottish National Party leader says there are two genders but government lists 24

Options include genderfluid, genderqueer, pangender, bigender, autigender and demigender: male, female and not otherwise specified

The Scottish National Party has come under fire for releasing a list of 24 genders that people can choose from when their government is collecting personal data. This comes just months after its leader, John Swinney, went on record saying that he believed there were only two genders while adding that “people will debate and discuss that.”

The new list is part of the document titled Sex, Gender Identity, Trans Status — Data Collection and Publication: Guidance, crafted by the government’s chief statistician, Roger Halliday.