Morning Briefing: Trump Administration Erases Transgender People from Crime Data Statistics
The U.S. Department of Justice will reportedly 'no longer collect data about the gender identity of people who experience violent crime or sexual misconduct.'
Morning Briefing: The U.S. Department of Justice will reportedly “no longer collect data about the gender identity of people who experience violent crime or sexual misconduct.” As revealed by a series of unpublished revisions to federal policy, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has “removed all references to gender or gender identity from at least four federal surveys.”
Luis Ramirez has been indicted for “allegedly making terroristic threats to Central Synagogue and the Jewish community in Manhattan, and has been “charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with one count each of making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, making a terroristic threat and aggravated threat of mass harm,” according to a statement from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
In Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, flyers promoting White Supremacists propaganda have been “distributed throughout the county contained multiple messages,” and the flyers have reportedly been distributed by members of the Aryan Freedom Network, a nationwide White Supremacists neo-Nazi organization.
In Los Angeles, California, a transgender woman who owns a convenience store near MacArthur Park has reportedly been “repeatedly assaulted and harassed by an unidentified man now wanted by police.” The attacks have included “sexually assaulted, beaten with a skateboard and pepper-sprayed in a series of incidents that police have labeled a suspected hate crime.”
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Moira Donegan writes that “it’s possible that later, when we know more about how the Trump regime reshapes the US and about how it ultimately comes to an end, we will look back at this moment in 2025 and conclude that we were already living under an autocracy. Checks on executive power seem to have all but vanished; the Trump administration is not acting like either the courts, the judiciary or the people have any prerogatives that they must respect… Which is not to say that the developments of the past few months are unprecedented. In many ways, the first 100 days of Trump’s restoration are much like the first 100 of his initial term, in 2017: they are marked by a dizzying whirlwind of scandals, so numerous and preposterous as to be difficult to keep up with; by a cartoonish incompetence; and by public displays of aggression, cruelty, malice and dominance – be it over the federal workforce, his political rivals, foreign leaders, major institutions or the American people themselves. But the second Trump term has also been more reckless, more focused and more frictionless in its work to consolidate power and cut off its political opposition. Long gone are the first-term administration staff members who sought to have some sort of moderating influence on Trump – the bureaucrats and institutionalists who thought they could slow him down with procedure, the more cynical Republican opportunists who thought they could bend his charisma to their own ends. What is left in Trumpworld are only the true believers, or those with the zeal of converts. They are no longer being slowed down from the inside.” [The Guardian]
Matt Shuham writes that “President Donald Trump is using a bizarre legal loophole to allow the military to perform domestic law enforcement activity on U.S. soil, an escalation of his already ultra-aggressive immigration and border security policies. The Trump administration declared last month that chunks of land directly alongside the U.S.-Mexico border are now actually long, thin military installations — and that soldiers guarding those bases can detain and search trespassers before handing them over to law enforcement. The military is usually barred from carrying out civil law enforcement work due to the Posse Comitatus Act, which was signed in 1878. But the law does have exceptions — including something known as the ‘military purpose doctrine,’ which allows military activity on U.S. soil as long as it primarily furthers military function. The idea behind Trump’s new guidance is that soldiers are protecting military installations from trespassers, not technically enforcing immigration law or guarding the border. Last month, the president signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to cede control of land along the border — known as the ‘Roosevelt Reservation,’ as it was set aside by then-President Theodore Roosevelt — to the Defense Department, which has since started patrolling parts of the territory as if it were a military installation and detaining those who ‘trespass’ on it.” [Huffington Post]
Hannah Gais and Cathy Johnson write that “the administration and its allies have railed against ‘gender ideology extremism,’ which it has used to enact anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. To the extent that ‘gender ideology’ refers to the notion that ideas about gender can, and do, inform policymaking, it’s clearly a bedrock principle of the administration. President Donald Trump has referred to himself as ‘the fertilization president’ and floated pro-natalist policies that would direct cash bonuses to mothers after the births of each child. The administration has made clear that not all families are equal. Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation’s 900-plus-page guidebook for the administration’s speedrun into authoritarianism — encouraged all levels of government to manipulate their services to prioritize married heterosexual, cisgendered couples. Today, ‘Creating Gender’ and the 380 other books the Naval Academy removed from Nimitz Library are now inaccessible to patrons. The full list represents a bizarre collection of books that appear to be identified based on keywords. Reporting in The New York Times and elsewhere has described the book purge as tied to a Jan. 29 executive order that seeks to end ‘radical indoctrination’ in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms… It isn’t clear why the Naval Academy was the first to conduct these removals, but other institutions of higher education within the Defense Department appear prepared to implement similar processes.” [MSNBC]
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of course control the message, crimes are going down under Trump regime
And what you describe is precisely what his cult followers demand in a leader.