diff --git a/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/json/LdmlConvertRules.java b/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/json/LdmlConvertRules.java
index d15e233e861..ccdd7b3404e 100644
--- a/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/json/LdmlConvertRules.java
+++ b/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/json/LdmlConvertRules.java
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ class LdmlConvertRules {
                     // transforms
                     "transforms:transform:source",
                     "transforms:transform:target",
-                    "transforms:transform:direction");
+                    "transforms:transform:direction",
+                    "transforms:transform:variant");
 
     /**
      * The set of element:attribute pair in which the attribute should be treated as value. All the