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Taking part in Pride Live's Stonewall Day livestream event June 26, GLAAD Media's Vanguard Award recipient once again stressed the need to vote, pointing to the 2020 Census as a particular issue. "There were two choices for gender. There was male and female and that erasure was so upsetting to me, the erasure of transgender and nonbinary people," she reflected. "When you don't collect information on a group of people, that means that you have every excuse in the world not to support them. When you don't collect data on a community, that's a really, really brutal way of dismissing them."
But she intends to use her immeasurably powerful platform to keep such issues at the forefront. "I just believe very firmly that everyone should be able to live out their love story without the fear of discrimination," Swift said while accepting the Icon Award at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards in December, "and the way for that to happen is for us to continue to keep pushing governments to put protections in place for members of the LGBTQ community. And I promise to always advocate for that."