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Since 2016, researchers have been able to use the CDC’s Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System to gather data on Americans’ gender identity. akinbostanci/E+ via Getty Images

We’ve been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them

The federal government has erased gender identity questions from federal surveys. Researchers say it will cost them at least a decade’s worth of data.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and SA Best leader Nick Xenophon provided different narratives about youth populations in the state. AAP Images/Morgan Sette

FactCheck: is South Australia’s youth population rising or falling?

In a South Australian leaders’ debate, Jay Weatherill and Nick Xenophon disagreed over the extent to which young people are leaving the state in search of better opportunities. We asked the experts.

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