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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:39

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:40

At the direction of the Trump administration, the federal Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies are purging its websites of information and data on a broad array of topics — from adolescent health to LGBTQ+ rights to HIV.

This is outrageous and despicable.

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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:41

Several webpages from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with references to LGBTQ+ health were no longer available. A page from the HHS Office for Civil Rights outlining the rights of LGBTQ+ people in health care settings was also gone as of Friday.

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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:42

The website of the National Institutes of Health's Office for Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office disappeared. (Most of these pages could still be viewed through the Internet Archive.)

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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:43

The changes at the CDC and NIH are examples of a broad push by the Trump administration on gender issues under an executive order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government."

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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:44

That order directs agencies throughout the government to stop offering "gender identity" as a choice on government forms and to end funding of "gender ideology." Another order, signed by Trump, takes aim at "diversity, equity, and inclusion" across the federal government.

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Written by Betty C. Jung on 2025-02-01 at 02:44

On Friday, many pages that did not seem related to "gender" or "diversity" had also been taken down, such as AtlasPlus, an interactive tool from CDC with surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs and TB.

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