Relevant to a recent tweet, I want to provide some evidence of documented violence against LGBT folks to document why erasure harms.
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LGBT folks have almost no tracking for our epidemiological outcomes. And not having the opportunity to provide data via census hurts.
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There are communities that legitimately believe they have no LGBT folks among them. This is statistically absurd.
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But the invisibility and erasure *also* means that crimes against--or by--LGBT folks gets hidden. The truth is obscured.
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The census is the least elegant approach to solving for this but it at least provides mostly indisputable data.
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We can't completely understand transphobic and homophobic violence without data. But we can believe people when they speak about it.
End of conversation
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Thank you for bearing the unpleasantness to make this important message heard.
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