OPINION:
The 2020 census won’t ask questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, and the homosexual lobby is infuriated. The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Task Force accuses the Trump administration of nothing short of genocide. “We’ve been erased!” the task force cried.
Such shrill rhetoric probably ensures many indignant “re-tweets,” and this is a classic example of “fake news.” The authentic news is that the U.S. Census Bureau, as required by federal law, told Congress what it expects to ask when it counts Americans three years hence. The bureau says the decision not to ask about sexual orientation and sexual identity was not made at the request of the Trump administration, but the Donald gets blamed for everything bad, anyway.
A Census Bureau spokesman says 75 Democrats in Congress asked the Census Bureau to include such questions, and the request was “carefully considered.” But the bureau concluded there was “no federal data need to change the planned census or American Community Survey subjects.” Such questions were once proposed, but the bureau says now they were listed “inadvertently.”
The homosexual/transgender lobby has insisted for years that the government should “stay out of the bedroom,” but it wants to invite the government in now because larger purposes are afoot. Nevertheless, the decision of the Census Bureau might be a blessing in disguise for the lobby.
With the sex questions asked, the census likely would confirm, once and for all, that homosexuals and bisexuals make up only about 2 percent of the population, as most legitimate independent studies have found, rather than 10 percent, as gay groups have asserted for years.
The 10 percent figure was calculated to lead the public to think that 1 in 10 Americans were gay, thus making it easier to persuade a skeptical public that “gay rights” is an overwhelming “civil rights” issue. With most of the gay agenda — particularly the establishment of same-sex marriage as an actual marriage in the law — now accomplished, the 10-percent myth has been mostly abandoned. If sex questions are posed in the 2020 census, the fabulism of 58 genders, or sexes, would be revealed as myth, too.
The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law School, which is generally sympathetic to homosexual causes, estimated last year that 0.58 of 1 percent of the population is transgendered, but that’s 193 times higher than earlier estimates that the percentage is just .003. Whatever the correct figure may be, it’s only a tiny, tiny fraction of the body politic, despite the impression the mainstream media has sold that nearly all Americans are unhappy with who they are and are eager to change genders.
After eight years of Obama administration’s bending to the whims of the LGBTQ lobby, the facts inevitably emerge. The gay caballeros should remember the caution of the noted philosopher Mick Jagger, who observed in celebrated song that “You can’t always get what you want.”
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