If They Don't Count Us, We Don't Count: Trump Administration Rolls Back Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection

Cahill, S. R., & Makadon, H. J. (2017). If They Don’t Count Us, We Don’t Count: Trump Administration Rolls Back Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection. LGBT Health, 4(3), 171–173. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2017.0073

The Trump Administration recently removed sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions from a national aging survey and decided not to add a sexual orientation category and a transgender identity field to a national disability survey as planned. These actions have raised concerns that the major expansion of SOGI data collection in surveys and clinical settings in recent years may be under threat. SOGI data collection is essential to understand lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health and the extent to which LGBT people access critical social services, including elder and disability services essential for living in the community. Keywords: disparity, electronic health record, sexual orientation and gender identity data, survey.