Government asks for $10M to study how to ask about sexual orientation
Category: News & Politics
Via: vic-eldred • 2 years ago • 43 commentsBy: Timothy Nerozzi (Fox Business)
The United States Census Bureau is requesting at least $10 million to fund research and development on how to ask citizens about their sexual orientation and identity.
The money, which would be spent over several years, would be used to test different wordings for the question, examine response patterns, and craft the most succinct questions for the American Community Survey.
The census and its questions are often used as guides or referenced by other government agencies when crafting their own questionnaires for employees or the public.
A major consideration in crafting new questions for the U.S. Census is that many citizens' information is reported via proxies. This includes parents, spouses, heads of household and more.
Proxies often fill out census information for everyone in their home, and how proxies describe the sexual identities of others in their house is another area of consideration.
The wording and details of the question could have cascading ramifications on how the government asks about sex and sexuality for years to come.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is currently discussing legislation that could require federal surveys to provide more nuance on sexual identity questions.
Population estimates released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
From the same "non-partisan" agency that no longer asks about citizenship and made mistakes that cost states like Texas additional representation.
I will tell them how to ask those questions and I will only charge them 5 million.
Man
Woman
Something else.
As for sexual orientation, none of the governments business.
I hear ya! I'll do it for $1 Million and I'll have them back to when there was no question about Hispanic.
The only descriptive boxes I'd have would be:
Male or Female
Black or White
Citizen or non-Citizen
No that can be shortened even further, forget even the second one.
Keep the government out of the bedroom.
Unless they supply the whips and chains
Cool
Definitely; and keep sexual preferences in it.
This COULD be another one of those reasons the world is laughing about us.
You mean the the world doesn't hold us in the highest regard as Joe and his minions keep saying? I guess an old senile mumbling president leading from behind and focusing on pronouns while causing and ignoring the countries problems is not revered as much as the democrats would tell you.
You know this due to your vast traveling ?
Do you find this a legitimate use of taxpayer dollars?
If so, why?
Leaving out a key part of a sentence is a dishonest way to quote something. That dishonesty speaks volumes and none of it’s good.
My question stands.
Perhaps Gazoo sits.
"Do you find this a legitimate use of taxpayer dollars? If so, why?"
Interesting that you got absolutely zero answer.
I suppose if it’s stuck deep enough in the mud of dishonesty it’ll stand.
Nice waste of taxpayer money.
Sheer stupidity.
"Nice waste of taxpayer money.
Sheer stupidity."
Well, we are talking something from the leftist liberal Democrats in charge here. If somebody from the government shows up on my doorstep asking about something like that, I will just enough time to tell them it's none of their business and to get off my property before slamming the door shut in their faces. I'm really curious to see how long it will take our resident lefty libs to chime in and defend the horse manure Biden and his minions came up with on this
All that money to determine something most people don't give a shit about.
Brilliant, just fucking brilliant.
$10M?
1. What sex were you assigned at birth on your original birth certificate?
Choice of answers: Male or Female.
2. Do you currently describe yourself as male, female or transgender?
Choice of answers: Male, Female, Transgender or None of these.
3. Which of the following best represents how you think of yourself?
Choice of answers: Gay or lesbian; Straight, that is not gay or lesbian; Bisexual; Something else; I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
4. After answering how you think of yourself (above), which would you rather be?
Choice of answers: Gay or lesbian; Straight, that is not gay or lesbian; Bisexual; Something else; I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
5. In the past 4 years who have you had sex with?
Choice of answers: Straight Men only, Gay Men only, Transgender Men only, Straight Woman only, Lesbian Woman only, Transgender Woman only, Both Straight Men and Lesbian Woman, Both Gay Men and Straight Woman, Both Trans Men and Trans Woman, Other combinations, I have not had sex
6. People are different in their sexual attraction to other people. Which best describes your feelings? Are you:
Choice of answers: Only attracted to females, Mostly attracted to females?, Equally attracted to females and males?Mostly attracted to males? Only attracted to males? Not sure
America needs these answers.
Last week my granddaughter asked her mother how many sexes there were? My daughter thought about it for a minute before answering and said "There only three. Male, female, and hermaphroditic!". After my daughter explained what hermaphroditic meant, my granddaughter looked thoughtful and said okay, I get it and walked away. It was all I could do to keep a straight face.
“$10M?”
Chump change. For those thinking the expenditure is warranted and for those grousing about it. Just another in the seemingly endless list of points of departure.
Wasted money, wasted time…
Yep, about 85 seconds of federal spending.
You are not assigned a sex at birth. You are either born male or female. The do not decide that at birth. You are one or the other. Period. You will also die as one or the other as what you are born as. No amount of surgery can change that fact.
Too many woke idiots with access to taxpayer money.
I don't see the value in this. It's not like we've got massive government programs aimed at LGBTQ people, so I'm not sure why we even need to count them. It also won't affect representation. If you want to know how many gay people there are in the country, ask Gallup.
“I'm not sure why we even need to count them…”
Really? At what point does a demographic merit consideration? This is a much larger segment of the population than you imagine.
What sort of consideration? Why not save the money and let everyone self-identify with whatever labels they prefer?
At what point does a demographic merit consideration?
Maybe after they hit 1 million in the census they should get their own state.
“Maybe after they hit 1 million in the census they should get their own state.”
Specious, even if offered sarcastically.
In what state do you and yours reside for certainly there are more than a million who share such idiocy.
Take a deep breath, it will be ok.I would still love to know what sort of consideration you are talking about
Consideration ≠ Counting. You tell me why the federal government needs to count them and I'll listen.
First, you have no fucking clue what I imagine. And B, it's irrelevant anyway.
What sort of consideration? Why not save the money and let everyone self-identify with whatever labels they prefer?
“Why not save the money and let everyone self-identify with whatever labels they prefer?”
If only individuals could do so without being chastised, discriminated against, and being subject to politically motivated denigration.
Individual Census information is confidential and census workers have to swear an oath on that and are subject to prosecution and large fines for divulging individual information