The Trump administration deleted a data series on the number of transgender people murdered.
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Bulwark TakesAug 21, 2026
Sources document that the Trump administration removed gender identity questions and some LGBT violence-victimization data (NCVS, BJS brief, BOP inmate statistics), but none says a data series counting transgender murders was deleted.
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… trusts the demographic data, nobody trusts the GDP data, nobody trusts any of it, makes it a much less good place to invest, and so I think that there had been some tacit understanding of that here, even within the Trump administration, that, like, okay, we can mess with counts of how many trans people are getting murdered, which is another thing, another data series that early on they deleted, but we're not going to mess with any economic data, we're not going to mess with, like, you know, core inputs to economic data, we're not going to mess with the brand of any of these agencies, because markets would freak out, because they know that, like, …
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Supports. The Williams Institute reports that DOJ removed gender identity questions from the National Crime Victimization Survey, making it impossible to identify transgender victims in the sample.[1]
Supports. The Council on Criminal Justice reports DOJ deleted a BJS statistical brief and dataset on NCVS violent victimization of LGBT people, which was later reposted.[2]
Context. The Appeal and Essential Data report removal of gender identity items from several DOJ crime and inmate surveys, and deletion of data on transgender inmates at the Bureau of Prisons.[3][4]
Context. The only trans-murder count in the sources (Washington Blade, citing A4TE) is a nonfederal count of killings, and no source says the federal government deleted it or any federal murder series.[5]
Context. The NCVS measures non-reported victimization and does not count homicides, so the removed NCVS data is a different series from a count of trans people murdered.[1]
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Erasure of Anti-Trans Violence Data in the United Stateswilliamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2Federal Data in the Crosshairs: What's at Stake for Public Safety?counciloncj.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Trump DOJ Stops Collecting Crime Data on Trans Peopletheappeal.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Data Terminations and Removalsessentialdata.us · not rated · cited for: context
- 527 trans people murdered over last year - Washington Bladewashingtonblade.com · not rated · cited for: context
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