September 27 2025, 08:15 
New reporting reveals the Department of Homeland Security under former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is erasing transgender identity from intelligence assessments, even as the subject of those analyses is transgender people
Documents obtained by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein show the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has removed the ‘T’ from the LGBTQ+ initialism in recent reports on threats to the community, including transgender people.
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The reports refer to the broader community as “LGB+”, erasing trans people from the initialism and the reports themselves.
“The sad irony here is that transgender people suffer the highest rate of hate crimes of any group within the LGBT community, underscoring how strange it is to omit them from reports intended to enhance public safety,” Klippenstein writes.
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U.S. intelligence has removed "T" from "LGBT" in their reports – including those intended to warn of threats to the community. https://t.co/AmMd00zHNb
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 24, 2025
The security reports detail potential threats to the queer community during Pride month, including locations, attack methods, and law enforcement strategies.
According to one report, “The threat of violence against the LGB+ community and pride events primarily stems from ideologically motivated lone offenders or small groups of individuals with anti-LGB+ grievances.”
The report also cites the New York Police Department: “Several acts of violence and intimidation targeting the LGB+ community have occurred over the past several years in the NYC area.”
Nowhere, however, are transgender people mentioned as victims of that violence.
The erasure of an entire class of individuals by analysts at a law enforcement agency calls into question the veracity of other assessments and analyses by Homeland Security and other government agencies.
The omission follows a long list of actions taken by the administration in its crusade to erase LGBTQ+ identity from the federal government and American society at large, beginning with an executive order on “gender ideology,” which mandated the federal government recognize only two “immutable” sexes, male and female.
Since then, the National Park Service shortened the “LGBTQ+” acronym to “LGB” and removed references to transgender people from its website section on the Stonewall monument.
The administration ended the designated “Press 3” option on the 988 Lifeline that connected LGBTQ+ youth to specialized counselors with an official announcement that removed the “T” from the acronym.
And the State Department removed information related to transgender and intersex people from sections of its website regarding international adoption and travel, and banned the use of the X marker for nonbinary citizens on passports.
DHS Secretary Noem has been a staunch ally in the administration’s anti-trans actions.
When she was the governor of South Dakota, she signed legislation banning trans student-athletes from participating in sports aligned with their gender identity and criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state.
She accused transgender advocates and their allies of “dividing our youth with radical ideologies.”
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