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Point: Oregon is the queerest state. Counterpoint: No.

The US is queerer than ever as more people identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and a new study has figured out America's gayest state.

Pink News published an article on Monday (12/11) regaling us with the promise of "new data released by the UCLA's Williams Institute." New data! Queer reveals! Shocking results! The data in question was from the 2020-2021 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). It was at this point that we here at Dumb CDC lowered our champagne glasses. Since 2014, BRFSS has been the nationally-representative survey doing the "best" job of counting LGBTQ+ adults in the US. The survey is administered over the phone, and allows LGBTQ+ respondents to self-identify as a sexual minority and/or gender minority when answering the following 2 questions:

MSOGI.01a Q. Which of the following best represents how you think of yourself? 1 = Gay 2 = Straight, that is, not gay 3 = Bisexual 4 = Something else 7 = I don't know the answer 9 = Refused MSOGI.02 Q. Do you consider yourself to be transgender? 1 = Yes, Transgender, male-to-female 2 = Yes, Transgender, female-to-male 3 = Yes, Transgender, gender nonconforming 4 = No 7 = Don't know/not sure 9 = Refused

For me, it is with great pride to be counted as a Something else, Don't know/not sure -American 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #lovewins The use of these 2 questions is optional and not used by all states. In 2021, only 34 states asked these questions to count their LGBTQ+ residents.

In 2020, the Census Bureau deployed the Household Pulse Survey (Pulse) to collect household data during the COVID-19 pandemic. This nationally-representative survey is nimble, administered online, and systematically collects data on who is LGBTQ+ at the state level. How? Pulse asks sexual orientation and gender identity questions as core demographic questions that every single respondent answers.

D6 Q. What sex were you assigned at birth, on your original birth certificate? 1 = Male 2 = Female D7_alt Q. How do you currently describe yourself? Select all that apply. 1 = Male 2 = Female 3 = Transgender 4 = Nonbinary 5 = I use a different term _________ D9_original Q. Which of the following best represents how you think of yourself? 1 = Gay or lesbian 2 = Straight, that is not gay or lesbian 3 = Bisexual 4 = Something else 5 = I don't know

These questions may not seem a whole lot better or more intuitive... but the vastly-improved data coverage makes Pulse our problematic fave for state-level and nationally-representative LGBTQ+ data.

Now let's compare how the 2021 BRFSS and 2021 Pulse surveys counted LGBTQ+ adults in the US.

2021 BRFSS data reported 7.4% of respondents as sexual minorities and 0.8% of respondents as gender minorities. 2021 Pulse data reported 9.3% of respondents as sexual minorities and 2.6% as gender minorities. Converting these numbers to population estimates, Pulse data approximates that nearly 20 million adults in the United States self-identify as LGBTQ+, whereas 2021 BRFSS data estimates only 9 million.

This suggests that the US has been undercounting its LGBTQ+ population by possibly over 50% since 2014, and deploying public health resources, activities, and policies from this deeply inadequate data.

You could even say this violates the Belmont Report’s 3 ethical principles of human subjects research: a) respect for persons, b) beneficence, and c) justice. Really, you could say this.

What matters is that 2021 Pulse data found that LGBTQ+ people reside in every state and zip code. The highest numbers are in these 10 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. It is worth noting that 4 of these states did not collect LGBTQ+ data through the BRFSS that same year.

In sum: We're here. We're queer. We're everywhere.

And new data methods prove that we are very much so in rural areas and red states outside of the Soviet Republic of Pelosistan (FKA San Francisco). Just don't say Oregon. Resources:

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System documentation. here

Household Pulse Survey documentation. here

Human Rights Campaign (2021). We Are Here: LGBTQ+ Adult Population in United States Reaches At Least 20 Million, According to Human Rights Campaign Foundation Report. here

Brookings Institute (2023). LGBTQ+ Data Availability: What We Can Learn From Four Major Surveys. here

Office of the Chief Statistician of the United States (2023). Recommendations on the Best Practices for the Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data on Federal Statistical Surveys. here

The Fenway Institute (2019). The Nuts and Bolts of SOGI Data Implementation: A Troubleshooting Toolkit. here

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Thank you to endkillerwhalecaptivity for providing me this link! It has current data on the wild killer whale population. The data is divided by population area, male vs. female, unknown gender, etc. Age averages are included as well! The site is in German but numbers can be viewed in any language! BING translator helps too. ^^

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Interactively explore the ABS' 2011 Census data with the SBS Census Explorer.

Take a look at the statistics behind the Australians who speak your language, or find a particular place, and compare them with the nation's figures, another language group, or another place.

Among the topics you can explore, compare and share are: language spoken, country of birth, year of arrival, English proficiency, gender and age, Australian citizenship, religious affiliation, personal & household income, same-sex status and size of family.

The data, which was released on June 21, 2012 represents just some of the information collected on Census night, which was held on Tuesday, August 9, 2011. More data will be released later this year.

This is really interesting. Not extremely comprehensive, but it's interesting to note things like ~50% of people living in Australia had one or both parents born overseas, almost 22% of people put themselves down as having no religion (second highest after Western Catholic), ~12% of people didn't make it through Year 10, and one fifth of the entire country's population lives in Sydney.

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