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Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears
In the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts, researchers and volunteers around the world are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.
When asked about this, CDC spokesperson Melissa Dibble confirmed that, in compliance with Trump’s executive orders, “the transgender identity question was removed from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey,” but no other changes were made. On January 30, soon after Trump signed the first of his executive orders aimed at trans Americans, Libby Hemphill, director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at The Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR), started getting calls. It was more like a hunch, one that proved prescient when, then being led by Trump appointee and agency administrator Scott Pruitt, the EPA began removing climate change information from its website in April 2017, “ to reflect the approach of new leadership.”
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