@Old_IT_geek@techhub.social thanks for that important reply! 🤗 if it sets your mind at ease, given the clumsiness of my prior diatribes on this topic, i hope i might now be able to somewhat clarify. in fact i do trust our #ABS, & i do value & esteem them as highly as our wonderful #AEC. it is not their incompetence nor malfeasance i fear. it is specifically the possibility of a future malevolent govt i fear, which might compel by law & violence ABS staff to de-anonymise databases to facilitate them identifying their perceived ideological enemies for purposes of incarceration, violence, & potentially extermination. that sounds preposterous, doesn't it? of course it does! yet, i look at the madness & evil of merka [in general, but in context here specifically their open war against trans peeps], the seemingly ongoing escalation of public hate & governmental rhetorical & political violence against trans peeps in UK, & i look at the sickening rise in RWNJs here in straya, personified by PHON but there's others too... & so i have close to zero confidence in the future safety of trans peeps even here, if these trends continue. as such, though my instinctive desire ordinarily would be to fully & frankly participate in this census like its predecessors, i am responding now to a stronger desire... self-preservation. 🥺 #census #census2026 #auspol #trans #transphobia #transmisia #FuckRWNJs