The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the rules governing the 2030 US Census, including a requirement that could make questions about biological sex mandatory for respondents, a change critics say could effectively force transgender people to disclose their trans status to the federal government.
Anatomy and hormones you produce, yes. Injecting yourself with massive amounts of synthetic testosterone or estrogen isn't part of your biological sex. Just mark whatever the hell you want, it's a stupid survey. If you need it to validate yourself you have a lot bigger problems.
Sure but it wasn't your biology.
Personally I don't think they'd be able to tell the difference between someone not responding and a response being lost in the mail. The USPS is notoriously unreliable and should be privatized, donchaknow.
They send people to your address if they don't get a response, since its based off addresses and not people.
I had multiple people show up multiple times the last time we had a census cuz I didn’t want to deal with it. It doesn't just go away.
So, I'm not a male because my testicles just decided to stop producing testosterone, so I have to supplement it?
Can't single people out if everyone joins the party. I identify as trans now!
holy shit this is the kind of effective cis allyship we need
Well that's a good way to get people not to do the census.
That's the point. Undercount more liberal areas so they have less representation.
...Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
2028 is the start of resistance mate. By 2030 we're either in foxholes or, at best, working towards building a class conscious movement that will inevitably be broken by capital. You gotta think beyond the next election. This level of corruption isn't being fixed by a midterm or a single presidential run.
We need a modern Nuremberg trial for Republican and AIPAC dems that funded the genocide Israel is committing. I don't know how Americans sleep at night knowing trump installed Todd Blanche who quite explicitly said "not a single page more of the epstein files is coming out". It's obvious that humans anyone who so vehemently jumps to defend Israel's government is compromised or worse
For me to sleep, I have to use medication that requires a prescription.. That is the only way I can sleep at all.
Yea i mean im voting in November. Hopefully you are too? There was a primary, there's volunteers, we're having an election in november??
Well again, we’re having an election in November. And we’re all eagerly waiting. You theory will be more sound if you wait until November and interpret the results. It will certainly be relevant. Which country is it that you live in? Must be nice to not have a far right political party creeping into ultimate power??? Obviously you’re not from Germany, right???
Well an "election" for sure. And their supreme court will find a way to decide the midterms, somehow.
I genuinely don't think there will be one. If there is it will be similar to russian elections where the outcome is predetermined. We have the Paul brothers visiting the pentagon. The president is all over the Epstein files whilst they cover up the rest. Blatant corruption of markets in the Iran war.
Nothing happens.
ah, fascists and their lists.
What would prevent someone just claiming their identified sex as their census answer? What's the penalty?
They make a comparison with your birth certificate, then remove your right to vote because your documents are fake or whatever.
The federal government doesn’t administer elections, that’s explicitly laid out in the constitution as a state power
the government does not get free access to census responses, either. it's protected data. the census bureau produces statistics and numbers, it is not a surveillance arm for the feds. it has to be that way, otherwise half the country or more would either lie or not respond at all.
To determine voter eligibility? No, people move more than once a decade.
Oh we're close enough to the election that they gotta bully trans people for votes.... will it work again?
You're right. You know what i mean, they're gonna crank the volume to 12/10.
As said in the article, you can publicly comment on the proposal here: https://www.regulations.gov/...
its also used as a basis for federal funding although given trump is pretty much getting rid of that could be moot.
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If it just says ‘biological sex’ without defining it then I’m marking male, because anatomy and hormones are both a part of your biological sex 🤷♂️
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