Education Department Stops Collecting some LGBTQ+ Student Data

Education Department Ends Federal Tracking of Bullying and Harassment of Trans Kids

The new policy also alters the definition of rape, excluding “gender identity” from a list of protected statuses.

Department of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids

A new policy from the Department of Education (ED) says the department will stop tracking numbers of transgender and non-binary students, which means it will also no longer track how often they are targeted for bullying, harassment, and assault. The change affects the already-ended 2025-2026 school year, though it’s unclear how this new policy will affect future years. “[The Office of Civil Rights (OCR)] determined that its costs outweighed its …

Education Department Will Stop Tracking Bullying, Harassment, Assaults Of Nonbinary/Trans Students

Education site The K-12 Dive reports: The U.S. Department of Education is abandoning the collection of key civil rights data on the nation’s LGBTQ+ students, cutting out data and definitions related to the harassment, bullying and assaults of a student group that has been found to be more at-risk of such incidents. Changes to the 2025-26 survey questions — approved by the Office of Management and Budget in July — include eliminating schools’ rep…

Education Department Ends LGBTQ+ Student Data

By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 31, 2026) — The U.S. Department of Education will no longer collect several categories of LGBTQ+ student information as part of its Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), ending the federal reporting of nonbinary student enrollment and removing references to gender identity [...] The post Education Department Drops LGBTQ+ Student Data From Civil Rights Survey app…

University of Alabama quietly abandons sexual orientation & gender identity nondiscrimination policy

The University of Alabama system quietly erased explicit protections for LGBTQ+ people from its nondiscrimination policy.The change, first reported by The Crimson White, appears to have been made sometime in November 2025, according to archived versions of the Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Program pages for the system and its campuses in Birmingham and Huntsville. The pages previously listed “sexual orientation, gender identity and ge…

Education Department stops collecting some LGBTQ+ student data

The department will no longer include information on nonbinary students and has excluded "gender identity" from its definition of rape.