The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the importance of destigmatizing transgender and gender-nonconforming people—as marginalized populations are often excluded from adequate testing, care and treatment, and vaccinations. This policy brief points to several ways to improve collection and use of gender-disaggregated data, calling for adequate human, financial, and time resources for gender-sensitive data collection efforts, including sensitization, training, and quality testing of gender-disaggregation questions and instruments. Read More