The bureau wants to test the wording, response categories and placement of gender identity and sexual orientation queries on the questionnaires for the American Community Survey.

"There could also be a legitimate gender difference in identity," she said. "It's a nature-versus-nurture puzzle that no one's going to solve." One percent to 2% of U.S. adults identified their ...

The U.S. Census Bureau under the Trump administration has sought permission to delete questions about gender identity from a monthly survey that gathers near real-time data about American life. The ...