Personal pronouns (how we refer to individuals, like “he,” “she” and “they”) are vital to affirming the identity of transgender and gender-nonconforming people. One young person, age 13, who attends
Increasingly, Americans, especially in the scientific community, are recognizing that the binary choice of sex is overly simplistic and needs to be reconsidered with sex viewed as a spectrum.
Currently, there is no widespread practice of collecting sexual orientation or gender identity data as a part of violent death investigations, which applies to cases of homicide, suicide and the use of deadly force by police.