“LGB+”: DHS erases transgender people from intelligence assessments

[Jessica_Rose]

"LGB+": DHS erases transgender people from intelligence assessments

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/lgb-dhs-erases-transgender-people-from-intelligence-assessments/ 🔗

Greg Owen (26 Sep 2025)

New reporting reveals the Department of Homeland Security under former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is erasing transgender identity from intelligence assessments, even as the subject of those analyses is transgender people

Documents obtained by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein show the department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis has removed the 'T' from the LGBTQ+ initialism in recent reports on threats to the community, including transgender people.

The reports refer to the broader community as "LGB+", erasing trans people from the initialism and the reports themselves.

"The sad irony here is that transgender people suffer the highest rate of hate crimes of any group within the LGBT community, underscoring how strange it is to omit them from reports intended to enhance public safety," Klippenstein writes.

According to one report, "The threat of violence against the LGB+ community and pride events primarily stems from ideologically motivated lone offenders or small groups of individuals with anti-LGB+ grievances."

Nowhere, however, are transgender people mentioned as victims of that violence.

The erasure of an entire class of individuals by analysts at a law enforcement agency calls into question the veracity of other assessments and analyses by Homeland Security and other government agencies.

[DeniseGrace]

The current administration will continue it's efforts to marginalize and take away the right LBGTQ+ individual. increasing the inherent dangers to these communities. Easy scape goat for the Red Hat Brigade. If they can get SCOTUS to allow their deportations along with the migrants they will declare victory load and clear. It's a disgusting and dangerous time to live in the US