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Trump DOJ Erases Trans People from Crime Data Surveys
The Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity from the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Survey on Sexual Victimization, and the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails.
Trump's Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity and trans people from at least four federal surveys.
theappeal.org
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Trans people are
more than four times as likely to experience violent crime. Behind bars,
incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12 times the rate of other imprisoned people, according to U.S. Department of Justice survey data.
Despite these statistics, the federal government will no longer collect data about the gender identity of people who experience violent crime or sexual misconduct.
In a series of unpublicized revisions last month, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics has removed all references to gender or gender identity from at least four federal surveys, The Appeal has confirmed. Experts say these changes will make it nearly impossible to monitor crimes and other forms of violence experienced by trans people.…”