Census ‘erasing’ LGBT community is fake news
The latest horror is over President Trump’s supposed “erasing” of the LGBT community, because the 2020 Census isn’t asking any questions about sexual orientation or gender identification.
Yet the Census has never asked about either — and all decisions are still being made by Obama appointees.
Not that facts can be allowed to stand in the way of social-justice fury, which erupted everywhere from a GQ column, “The Trump White House Is Quietly Destroying That ‘LGBT-Friendly’ Agenda It Loves To Talk About,” to a Daily Beast rant, “This Is Why The Erasing of LGBT Americans On The 2020 Census Matters.”
And don’t even think about the outraged #CantEraseUs tweets.
In the Beast piece, Tim Teeman storms that “erasure is not an uncommon thing for LGBT people to experience” and that “initially, LGBT people were to be part of the 2020 census.”
He asks: “Why did census organizers at first plan to include LGBT Americans in the census, and then — suddenly, and so far without explanation — decide not to?”
