Sherry Hamby argues that virtually no progress has been made in four decades of IPV research in her article “Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Research: Scientific Progress, Scientific Challenges, and Gender (2016). She includes the debate about gender symmetry between family violence scholars and feminist scholars as a primary reason, and delivers a scathing critique of the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS). The CTS is a behavioral self-report questionnaire that is used to measure violent incidents in couples (149-152). Hamby’s article represents everything that is wrong with IPV research: she completely neglects to mention anyone who is not heterosexual and cisgender, implying that IPV exists only in heteronormative relationships. By extension, she sees no problem with using institutional surveillance, such as law enforcement reports and arrests, homicide data, and self-report crime victimization studies, as an authoritative source of data (150). However, other studies have shown systemic bias in our society against sexual and gender minorities (Banks and Fedewa, 2010; Boyer and Balupo, 2015; Dodge et al., 2016; Nadal, Skolnik, and Wong, 2012). To assume that the institutions that exist in a biased society are not biased is incredibly naïve.