Counting the LGBTQ community: Why the census needs to be more inclusive

When it comes to who identifies as #LGBTQ, there’s a generation divide in the United States. Studies show between 3 to 4.5 percent of adults identify as LGBTQ - compared to about 8 to 9 percent of teenagers.
If only we had an incredibly powerful tool to validate this trend across the #population.
The thing is, we do: it’s the U.S. census. But even its new and improved design makes it hard for us to understand matters of gender and sexual identity.
Kerith Conron of UCLA’s Williams Institute explains who the 2020 U.S. #census is counting, who it’s not, and why, in our new video.
---------------------------------------­­­­­­-------------------------
📺 Subscribe! bit.ly/1fUWHyY
Fig. 1 explores new ideas and research out of the University of California - ranging from science, technology, art and humanities. Get inside the mind of a researcher.
💡Find more research at: www.universityo...

[@fig1]

In the 1940s, psychiatrists labeled homosexuality a mental disorder. Watch our video on the researcher who helped change this: ua-cam.com/video/HL3Hq5UwOnM/v-deo.html

[@yaoiboi92]

Small steps in the right direction, but still not enough. Still glad to see there will be clearer data though.

[@TheConnieLee]

yaoiboi92, the LGBTQ communities are not clear on who they really identify with. Many who use to identify with them have changed, refuse to identify with them, or believe it's nobody's business. Also, teens are obviously the wrong people to ask about their preference (s). LOL! It's difficult to get accurate data in any of those situations.

[@DakuHonoo]

questions like gender identity and "assigned"(more like observed) sex at birth are utterly useless if you're already asking for their sexual orientation

[@victorvelez8469]

Those are completely different things, you do know that right?

[@sentiment201]

@@victorvelez8469 Those are not completely different things. Stop promoting pseudoscience

[@DakuHonoo]

tough luck teenagers, wait for being adults and getting the right to vote

[@topturn9653]

human teens-imagine that

[@MichaelM28]

🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

[@kamaz21ural17]

My gender is attack helicopter.