U.S. Census Bureau Proposes Adding Gender, Sexuality Questions For Those Ages 15 & Up
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 plan to incorporate gender identity and sexuality questions to 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 who 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 t