I received my census form today, filled it out and put it in the mail. (The census comes with a postage paid envelope so no waiting on long lines at the post office for a stamp).
The census is short and easy to fill out. Several questions are about how you self-identify.
Transgender people should enter the sex that they identify as. However, there will be no count of transgender people. You will be counted as male or female. Period.
Gays or lesbians will be counted as same-sex couples if “Person 2” marks “Husband or wife” or “Unmarried partner” and both people in the house are the same sex. Although we are not, Miguel and I marked “Unmarried partner”so we would count.
Well, actually we marked “Pareja no casada” because I filled out the form en espanol. Why? Porque yo could. Hopefully this will confuse somebody because I filled it out in the column that’s in Spanish and marked that I was not hispanic. Race, however, is another item that should be entered as you self-identify.
The one question I had a problem with is age and date of birth. I know my date of birth. I’ll say it. I was born in 1953. But I self-identify as 35. According to Elizabeth Lopez Lyon, the LGBT partnership specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau in Dallas, that should be filled out as actual age, not how I self-identify.
Congratulations! Same here. Couldn’t find a column for “Eastern European origin” so I opted for the unimaginative “white”. I like the answering in Spanish though!
I just filled out mine and I’m an unmarried partner too!
During the last census I went door to door in Oak Lawn doing the census. Boy was that fun!
My husband and I filled out our Census Form and we filled ours out married even if the state of Texas doesn’t recognize it!
I just filled mine out so Denton County will have some more “unmarried partner”s in my household. Is there any reason why we can’t be doing this Census online? Seems like such a waste of postage and paper for the feds.
I asked about that and the Census Bureau is looking into allowing census forms to be filled out on line for the 2020 census.
Order free QUEER THE CENSUS stickers to attach to your census envelopes to demand that the Census count everyone!
http://www.queerthecensus.org
Gee, 10 years from now the government might have the capabilities to receive census information online? Whoever made that decision will live to regret it. Everyone knows the Internet is just a passing fad.
U are a full deck, Ms. Decker!
No, Jon, they are STUDYING the POSSIBILITY that MAYBE in 10 years …