When then-President Obama said that the Census would finally contain a question “Do you identify as transgender?” I was elated. Finally, I would REALLY COUNT. As who I really am. And Trump has destroyed it.
What does it hurt anyone else...if a question like that appears on the Census? if you do not so identify, just say no...what is the big deal? We have, in my community, always had to deal with estimated numbers of our population...and I think that is the reason Trump took us off the Census. Because he, and the Republicans DO NOT want an accurate picture of our numbers. So that they can continue to marginalize us. So that they can continue to dehumanize us and make us invisible.
So, I am simply refusing to participate in the Census in 2020 in protest.
And, when they send a worker to my door...because we do not fill our form out...I will nicely tell the worker (after all, they are just doing their job) that I have refused to participate, and that until transgender people are allowed to so identify...and be counted as such — I refuse to participate in protest. And to convey that message back to their superiors.
I’d bring it up with my Congress people, too...if I had a Congresscritter that was worth a damn. But I have Burr and Tillis on the Senate side, and George Holding on the House side. None of them are worth the space they occupy. They do not represent me and never have.
And, so long as I am not accurately counted and represented in this country, I will not participate. All members of my household have been instructed to follow this direction...and since I pay for the house, they will comply. My household, the entire household...WILL NOT be counted in the 2020 Census.