This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it

[Jessica_Rose]

This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-data-may-vanish-under-trump-so-we-charted-it/ar-AA1z2R75?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=8542bb75ab3d4680923c1d3351029e3b&ei=110

Story by Andrew Van Dam (14 Feb 2025)

For a few days this month, some of the most valuable datasets in human history vanished from U.S. government websites, often without warning and with no guidance about what would happen next.

On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on "gender ideology," triggering a government-wide purge of jobs, initiatives or programs featuring words such as "gender," "female," "transgender," "LGBT" and "nonbinary," according to our friend Carolyn Y. Johnson. Versions of all those words appear in the Pulse.

But at 5:10 p.m. on Jan. 31, orders went out to at least one regional Census Bureau office — where the survey is administered — to stop asking people their gender identity or whether they had faced prejudice or bigotry because of it...

We'd planned on charting the similar Pulse questions for a couple years now. But when we checked in early February, the files were already missing.

Luckily, we had most of the Pulse on our hard drive, and we found the rest on the nonprofit Internet Archive's systematic backups of federal data. Even more encouraging, less than a week after they disappeared and we started hassling the Census Bureau about it, the Pulse files returned.

So, what does the Pulse actually say, and why do we care about it so much? At first blush, it matches other polls. Recent Pulses show about 10 percent of American adults fit under the banner of LGBTQ, including about 1 percent who are transgender, 2 percent who are nonbinary, 4 percent who are bisexual and 3 percent who are gay or lesbian.

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The full article includes some interesting charts. See them while you can.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Tig58072]

If Google did my math right, there is 2700,000,000 of us.

[big kim]

Missing transgender people are now deleted from Namus and other  sites.