By CASEY HARPER | THE CENTER SQUARE
The U.S. Census Bureau is under fire for embracing progressive ideology around gender and sexuality and pushing for taxpayer dollars to fund it.
U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and JD Vance, R-Ohio, sent a letter to the U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos calling on him to rescind its use of gender identity and sexuality questions in the American Community Survey, which goes to more than 3.5 million Americans each year.
The Census Bureau proposed change in the federal register says the survey would ask about both someone’s sex “assigned at birth” as well as asking for someone’s “current gender.” That question would give the options of “Male, Female, Transgender, Nonbinary,” and “This person uses a different term” with an option to fill in the blank.
The question would only go to respondents that are at least 15 years old.
In its fiscal year 2023 budget request to Congress, the Census Bureau requested $10 million to study how best to word a question for the survey asking Americans about their gender identity.
“One such emerging need of our Nation is to improve the measurement of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) population,” the budget request said. “Improving how we collect data about sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations is a critical step in producing accurate data.”
The Senators argue that this could hurt the agency’s credibility in the eyes of the American people.
“Biology determines gender, not subjective belief, and the bureau should not jeopardize the legitimacy of crucial statistical information by endorsing unscientific and untrue concepts like gender identity,” the letter said. “For generations, the American people have looked to the U.S. Census as an unbiased, authoritative source describing the objective reality of life in America. It is not worth sacrificing this trust to advance controversial social ideas through government surveys.”
The Bureau’s budget request also suggests changes could be coming to questions about race. The federal group said in its budget request it wants to innovate “for new questions relating to sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersexuality and/or potential modifications to the race and ethnicity questions.”
Mike Gonzalez, an expert at the Heritage Foundation, blasted the federal government’s move on this issue, saying it is pushing a political narrative.
“The Census Bureau has been completely co-opted into the grievance-mongering industry, providing it with the data the industry needs to push the ‘oppressor/oppressed’ narrative,” Gonzalez told The Center Square. “What’s more, this information relates to synthetic categories that the Census took a lead in creating in the first place! Among these are faux ethnic groups like Hispanics or Asian-Americans, created in 1977. The Census now wants to add categories based on gender identity, in a question that will be asked of children as young as 15.
“It’s time for the administrative state to stop contributing to the division of our country into identity groups,” Gonzalez added.
The Census Bureau did not respond to a request for comment.
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Just do what I did when I once received this census form: refuse to answer ANY but the most basic of questions, such as age, number of household members, and ACTUAL gender, which is ONLY male or female, not fantasy constructs that exist only in the imagination of the mentally disturbed.
Or, just make stuff up. Last time, I told them that we were a family of Puruvian immigrants. It’s actually kind of fun.
LOL!
Maybe next time I will be a handicapped non-cis-binary Hispanic-Black-Oriental-Native American trans-lesbian illegal alien.
My pronouns will be “you/owe/me”.
Peruvian is what I meant.
I always say we are Hittites because the Hittites are extinct.
Paging Gabe Itches…
We are not a serious people.
The only saving grace from our upcoming collapse is the Chinese or the radical Muslims won’t tolerate such stupidity.
If there is going to be a census, do it on the state level and let the state report to the feds if they want. Quit supporting the top-down government ideaology!
It won’t be an accurate survey as millions of people will not tell. I myself identify as star dust.
Best comment ever.
The Census is a joke anyway. Does anyone ever answer it truthfully? I sure don’t.
Thanks Richard Levine for brining more confusion to an already confused society. Such a dick.
Please make this nonsense go away!!! There are only two sexes!!! All of this other nonsense is make-believe. Or a form of mental illness.
Please stick to “actual enumeration” of “persons”. There is such a thing called “The Constitution”.
Pretty easy to clear it all up with some more revealing questions. For instance: mentally ill, yes or no. If yes, diagnosed or undiagnosed. When you think about it these simple questions cover the entire controversy…if you’re biologically one gender but believe that you’re something different then it is all in your head – the very definition of mentally ill. Doesn’t mean you’re necessarily a bad person, just FU in the head.
The people who did this without asking are the same people who blocked us from asking about citizenship status.
It’s all about money and power. Stick to the Constitution: enumeration of persons (only) every ten years. Everything else the census agency does is bs. Cut their funding by at least half – better, kill the agency.
The agency is another data-collecting, money-laundering agency and should be shut down!
Working outside of express delegated authority is illegal group activity and may be the conduct of a tyrant as expressed in the plain language of our documents of creation in 1776 which still stand. There is extreme remedy never exercised by the corrupt expressed in executive orders. Orders are the means of communication of the American military.
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