Lawmakers demand Census ask about sexual orientation, gender identity

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Washington Times:

The Census should be demanding more information about “gender identity,” leading liberal lawmakers said Wednesday, asking the agency to start including more probing questions to get at the increasingly complex family dynamics in America.

 

“Many federal data collection instruments gather respondents’ race, ethnicity, sex, marital status and other personal demographic information. However, most of these instruments do not include direct measures of respondents’ sexual orientation or gender identity,” Rep. Raul Grijalva and Sen. Tammy Baldwin said in a letter they led, and which was co-signed by dozens of their Democratic colleagues.

 

In particular, they asked that the American Community Survey, which is the Census’s continuing method for taking the pulse of the country in between the decennial counts be changed to include specific questions about how Americans describe their own identity.