The 2020 census questionnaire drove Scout crazy. With no direct questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, it made him feel left out of the U.S. head count.
Among LGBTQ people, the census only asked about same-sex couples living together, and Scout didn’t live with his partner. So to compensate, he hounded his gay, cohabiting neighbors in Providence, Rhode Island, to respond and provide at least some visibility for the community.
“I was stalking them to fill out the census form because mine didn’t make a difference,” said Scout, a transgender man who uses one name. “There’s no question I’m absolutely made invisible by the census.”
This could change soon. Recognizing the difficulty of persuading people to reveal information many find sensitive, the U.S. Census Bureau is requesting millions of dollars to study how best to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity. The results could provide much better data about the LGBTQ population nationwide at a time when views about sexual orientation and gender identity are evolving.
“Change is in the air,” said Kerith Conron, research director at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, which researches these issues. “It’s exciting.”
The Census Bureau’s request comes as President Joe Biden declared June as LGBTQ “Pride Month,” and as U.S. passports now offer an “X” in addition to “M” or “F”, for non-binary or intersex individuals. It is taking place as some Republican-dominated state legislatures restrict what can be discussed about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools and banned transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports.
“We are seeing that numbers matter when politicians are demeaning and conducting culture wars against people,” said Gina Duncan, a transgender woman who advocates in Orlando with Equality Florida.
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Why would anyone think there had to be a question about sexual orientation?. Do I care if someone knows I am hetersexual? Quite frankly my sexual orientation is not bodys business. This person is just looking for someone to feel sorry for him! They are looking for special consideration; special rights. They think they are better than us.
The Holy Bible clearly explains what’s happening in Romans 1:18-32. God help us.
We must reinstate the practice of shunning the morally corrupt... turning them out of our Churches, denying them communion and the sacraments of the brotherhood... we need to keep them in our prayers but we don't have to invite them to dinner. We need to systematically isolate the sinner in the hope that the isolation will cause them to repent of their sinful lifestyles.... as did Paul with the man who was flagrantly living in sin with his father's wife, within the body of Christ in Corinthia. The result of such isolation brought the man to repent. He returned to a Christian moral lifestyle and was restored to the Body of Christ... the Church.
LGBTQ are no more special then you and me, and what they want to be is their business and we don't have to accept everything they ask for the only special people are those who's name is written in the Book of Life
Idiots are attempting to NORMALIZE the unnatural and immoral lifestyles of reprobates... the Census should not be used to establish what SCIENCE and NATURE declare to be deviant behavior. The idea that the Census would recognize LGBTQ individuals as a special group not only provides them with the argument that their lifestyle is now mainstream it encourages other deviant and abnormal behavior. Let the sociologists and psychologists pay for their misguided research.... the government needs to stick to the scientific and natural order... not the imaginary and deviant lifestyles of the sexually confused. We have enough problems without encouraging more.
Couldn't have said it better Thank you sir.
More of the satanic influence now ruling America!!!!! Sodom and Gamorrah had nothing on today's America!!!!! I pray asking God to spare the nation on behalf of the millions of true Christians who refuse to bow to satanism!!!!!!!!!!
Ditto Bob... I am reminded of the scripture that describes the last days: As the days of Noah were, so shall it be when Christ returns... Mankind will be giving and taking in marriage (the sacrament of marriage will be defiled) and every evil work will abound. Sodom and Gahrmora will stand in judgment of this sick and perverted generation. Amen.
Amen
To God be the Glory!!!
God help us all