Robust data about gender minorities can promote knowledge, increase visibility, and better inform the development of policy that impacts gender minority people. The current lack of data collection about gender minorities internationally limits how much governments, communities, and researchers know about the existence and experiences of these communities.

On June 17, 2016, researchers at The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, along with a steering committee of advisors, convened an international meeting of experts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to consider the current lack of international standards for collecting data about gender minorities in official, large-scale surveys.