The Supreme Court has given researchers more reason to fear the loss of race data.
After retaking office, President Donald Trump quickly made it the government’s official policy to only “recognize” two sexes, directing agencies to stop asking for gender identity information. Since then, government agencies have been carefully erasing LGBTQ+ data. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Data scientists who’ve been watching the Trump administration systematically scrub LGBTQ+ Americans from government data have for months feared what could come next.
Then the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Meghan Maury-Fox, a consultant for Data Index, which monitors federal data collection, said they started to worry about race and ethnicity data when the Supreme Court limited states’ ability to draw majority-minority districts.
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