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Taylor Swift is claiming that the US 2020 census erases transgender and non-binary people because it only gives two gender (her word) options - male and female.
I've checked. The census asks for sex, not gender. So of course they are not being 'erased' because they fall into one of those two sex categories regardless of how they identify. I expect many of them will jump on this bandwagon regardless, though.
Now she might be justified in her argument that the US government should be collecting gender info, because as she says, if you don't have data on a group then it's easy to ignore them. But that's a different argument.
I think I'd support collecting both sets of data, but not solely gender (not that I'm in America).
So many people weighing in on the debate who don't understand the distinction between the two. As a general rule I love Taylor, but 🙄
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Taylor Swift on gender on the US census
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newrubylane · 29/06/2020 18:55
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