Gender-identity question dropped from the National Health Interview Survey; parallel removals in Census and child-health surveys

NCHS removed the gender-identity question (and its open-ended follow-up) from the 2025 NHIS questionnaire, ending gender-identity measurement in the country's principal household health survey while retaining sexual orientation. In the same period: the Census Bureau's Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey dropped five gender-identity questions "to align with EO 14168"; the National Survey of Children's Health removed the SOGI component of an adverse-childhood-experiences item and scrubbed its codebooks; and planned testing of SOGI items for the American Community Survey (targeted for ~2027) became indefinitely uncertain.