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Federal surveys trim LGBT questions, alarming advocates
Associated Press ^ | Mar 20, 2017 4:57 PM EDT | Matt Sedensky

Posted on 03/20/2017 5:00:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai

LGBT advocates are questioning the Trump administration’s quiet deletion of questions on sexuality from two federal surveys.

Combined with the withdrawal of another planned survey evaluating the effectiveness of a homelessness project for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, the moves have alarmed watchdogs who worry they may point to a manipulation of government data collection to serve the ideology of a government they view as hostile to their causes.

“In an age when LGBT rights are such a part of the national discussion, the Trump administration is choosing to not only ignore us but erase us from the discussion,” said Laura Durso, vice president of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit liberal advocacy group. She worried officials might be rolling back such data collection elsewhere. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communityliving; cultureofcorruption; federalsurvey; hhs; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; obamunism
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To: rickomatic

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21 posted on 03/20/2017 6:51:13 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Read Write Repeat

In a sane world these people would demand any references be removed. just plain crazy.


22 posted on 03/20/2017 7:40:16 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

Same for RACE and RELIGION but then no one besides Asians and Jews would get into Harvard, setting off the Parents of The Special Snowflakes Advocacy Association to March For Change.


23 posted on 03/20/2017 8:50:11 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Olog-hai

Does the national census ask the respondent’s and family’s sexual preferences?


24 posted on 03/20/2017 9:09:10 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Read Write Repeat

:)


25 posted on 03/20/2017 9:11:39 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Olog-hai

I hope they remove skin color questions next. That would really drive them up a wall.


26 posted on 03/20/2017 9:59:35 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s count abortions instead.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 10:19:20 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Olog-hai

Center for American Progress (CAP), a Soros project along with Podesta, IPS’s longtime fellow Robert Borosage (now with another leftist front), and Morton Halperin, IPS/CNSS anti-intelligence turncoat.


28 posted on 03/20/2017 11:10:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: posterchild

I didn’t think we were supposed to see people’s sexuality, just the people?


29 posted on 03/21/2017 3:56:29 AM PDT by tekrat
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