This page brings together public writing connected to the Statistical Justice project. These opinion pieces are shorter and more immediate than academic or technical documents, but they address many of the same questions: who gets recognized in official systems, what is lost when identity is erased in public records, and why these issues matter in public debate.
Why Statistical Justice Matters for Human Rights#
Media: OpenGlobalRights | Date: Available soon
This article introduces statistical justice as a human rights issue. It examines how exclusion from official data can shape whose needs become visible to governments, researchers, and public institutions, and argues that meaningful recognition in data systems is increasingly important for making rights, inequalities, and policy responsibilities visible.
Which Lives Count in a Democracy? The Power to Decide What to Know About Trans People#
Media: El Espectador | Date: 27 August 2026
Examines how political decisions about what states measure and make visible shape their capacity to understand society, and why protecting that capacity is part of protecting democracy.
What Trans Experiences Reveal About Fragmented Digital Regulation#
Global: Policy | Date: 24 August 2026
This op-ed examines how fragmented digital regulation can produce inconsistent forms of recognition across public institutions and digital systems. Using trans experiences as a case, it argues for more coherent approaches to data and digital governance that protect rights while ensuring that people are accurately recognized across the systems that increasingly shape public life.
The right to a future: statistical justice as a condition for protecting trans and non-binary lives#
Media: Liga de Salud Trans | Date: 28 June 2026
This op-ed calls for statistical justice to become a central priority of the broader sexual and gender diversity movement. It argues that visibility and symbolic inclusion must be translated into reliable and protected data, public budgets, policies, and accountability mechanisms that enable the state to recognize, protect, and respond to the realities of trans and non-binary people.
Trans visibility: from symbolism to genuine recognition#
Media: Mutante | Date: 31 March 2026
This op-ed examines the gap between the legal recognition of trans identities and the state systems that continue to record people inconsistently or fail to recognize them altogether. It argues that genuine visibility requires more than symbolic inclusion: it demands coordinated public institutions, reliable and protected data, and the meaningful participation of trans communities in designing systems that recognize their identities and experiences with dignity.
Trans people, data, and good governance: a challenge for Abelardo de la Espriella#
Media: El espectador | Date: 7 July 2026
This op-ed argues that statistical justice for trans people is a condition of good governance rather than a secondary technical concern. It examines how fragmented, inconsistent, and insufficiently protected government data systems produce institutional invisibility, and calls on Colombia’s incoming government to consolidate existing legal and institutional advances so that official information reflects the country’s true diversity.
A commemoration that falls short: inclusion in discourse, barriers in practice#
Media: El espectador | Date: 17 May 2026
This op-ed examines the contradiction between public celebrations of diversity and the institutional barriers that trans people continue to face. It argues that symbolic inclusion is not enough when health and information systems still pathologize trans identities, restrict access to gender-affirming care, and fail to accurately document the violence experienced by trans communities.
Trans memory: when identity is lost in official records#
Media: El espectador | Date: 20 November 2025
This op-ed reflects on memory, recognition, and the consequences of losing identity within state records. It connects official documentation to dignity, remembrance, and the ways institutions can continue to erase people even after death.
Statistical justice for trans and non-binary people#
Media: El Espectador | Date: 20 October 2025
This op-ed introduces the idea of Statistical Justice in relation to the exclusion of trans and non-binary people from official systems of recognition and counting. It is written for a wider public audience and helps translate the project’s central concerns into a more direct public conversation.