Erasure of Anti-Trans Violence Data in the United States

Recent changes to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) remove questions to identify transgender people. The NCVS, a national probability sample developed to capture crimes not reported to law enforcement, is a primary source for chronicling violent victimization in the United States. NCVS data have shown that transgender people experience four times more violent victimization than cisgender people. Following a recent Executive Order, the Justice Department removed questions about gender from future surveys, preventing identification of transgender respondents. Erasing transgender people from the survey will undermine efforts to monitor and prevent violence against them.