The Trump administrator wants to stop collecting data on anti-trans-crime crime

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According to reports, the Ministry of Justice will report to collect federal data on crimes that were committed against transgender people in accordance with the first order of President Donald Trump's executive arrangement by anti-transenting.

A report was published in the complaint on May 5, which showed that the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) refer to gender and gender identity from at least four federal surveys that are not yet known: the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the training of school crime, the survey on sexual victim have eliminated the areas of registrations in local prisons.

These changes seem to be of Trump, January 20, “defend women against the extremism of gender -specific ideology and to restore the biological truth of the federal government”, which ordered all federal authorities to “remove all statements” that remove the ideology of gender genders from gender or otherwise contribute. The order also requires forms to list “male” and “female” only as options for “sex” and to use the use of the term “gender identity” in federal forms.

According to the appeal, the NCVS checks 240,000 people every year on experiences with crimes, including non -reported crimes, and serves as an important resource to understand the frequency of crimes, which often do not talk about people, including sexual assault and hate -based incidents.

A memo that has received the complaint describes some of the changes to the NCVS School Crime Supplement, with which data should be collected that have been specially committed in schools. In an original question, it is asked: “In this school year, someone at school has described an insulting or bad name that has to do with their breed, religion, ethnic background or national origin, disability, gender or sexual orientation?” The revised question is: “During this school year, someone at school describes himself an insulting or bad names that have to do with their breed, religion, ethnic background or national origin, disability, gender-in one way of male or female or sexual orientation? We call these hateful words.”

These changes will have a particularly negative impact on the understanding of the researchers about violence against imprisoned trans people. The appeal procedure states that an updated form from the survey on sexual victimization eliminates questions about gender identity and only asks about the gender of the victims, which means that researchers who use the data have no way of knowing how often imprisoned trans -people are victims of sexual attacks.

Linda McFarlane, the managing director of Just Detention International, told the appeal that “transkinders in youth facilities are sexually attacked”. “Now the government is turning their back on these children and doing this under the cover of darkness, without a chance of public comments,” she added.

Such data were of crucial importance for researchers who examine how often LGBTQ+ people are generally victims of violent crimes. In an email to the complaint, Han Meyer, a guide for public order and sexual orientation law at the Williams Institute of UCLA said that these changes were “devastating for our understanding of the health and well -being of the LGBT population”.

“Due to the removal of sexual orientation and gender identity data, political decision -makers, researchers and supporters do not leave any valid information about the victimization of LGBT persons,” Meyer told the publication.

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