Trump administration scrubs gender-based bullying data from school civil rights survey
Summary
The Trump administration removed information about nonbinary students and bullying based on gender identity from a federal school civil rights survey for the 2023-2024 school year. This action follows an executive order defining sex only as male or female, which led to hiding data about harassment and policies protecting transgender and nonbinary students in public schools.Key Facts
- The Education Department's Civil Rights Data Collection survey includes nearly every public school in the U.S.
- For the 2023-2024 school year, the survey originally included "nonbinary" as a gender category.
- Data on nonbinary students and bullying related to gender identity were replaced with a message saying the information was suppressed due to an executive order.
- President Donald Trump signed the order on his inauguration day, defining sex strictly as male or female for federal purposes.
- About 1,800 out of over 13,000 districts reported data on transgender and nonbinary students in the last survey collection.
- The administration’s action means less information is available about the experiences of transgender and nonbinary students in schools.
- The Trump administration has also filed a lawsuit against a Kansas City school system over its policies for transgender students.
- Researchers warn that without this data, it is harder to identify and fix bullying problems for nonbinary students in schools.
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