U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services To Begin Counting Trans People

[Shana A]

U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services To Begin Counting Trans People

http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/u-s-dept-of-health-and-human-services-to-begin-counting-trans-people/

Today the Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced a plan to develop and use survey questions to collect public health information on trans people.  This is the culmination of a lot of work from a lot of people.  Why is it so important?

    Public health data has never really been collected by the federal government.
    Federal public health data is the gold standard in public health data.

[tekla]

ONE, "AH AH AH AH AH!" (F/X thunder and lightning flashes)

[Shana A]

HHS unveils plan to start data collection on LGBT health

By Chris Johnson on June 29, 2011

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/06/29/hhs-unveils-plan-to-start-data-collection-on-lgbt-health/

The Department of Health & Human Services unveiled on Wednesday new details about plans to collect data on the LGBT population as part of federal health surveys.

According to a statement from the department, HHS will incorporate questions on sexual orientation into the National Health Interview Survey by 2013. Further, the department plans to hold a series of research roundtables with experts to determine the best way to collect data related to gender identity.

Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius already announced last week that her department would start collecting health data on LGBT people during a news conference in response to a question from the Washington Blade. The information unveiled on Wednesday sheds greater light on the plan to start collecting this information.

[Lisbeth]

It's about time someone did something to bury that damned "one out of every 30,000" number.

[Jennie]

We are not a race, religion or third gender. Integration into society is the only way to equality. I am female, thank you.

Well said, I feel the same way, I am a girl! Plain and simple.  Aloha.

Jennie

[YinYanga]

I'm sure there are some females with a TS history that would like to brand me with David's Star sort of speak because I identify as a predominantly female identifying Transgender who isnt 100% pure and a member of the club

I'd rather have that "Third Gender" tag than to live with, well, nazis