The Trump administration has taken steps to remove information about LGBT health and certain vaccines from federal websites, including those of leading public health agencies. This action follows a memo instructing agencies to end programs that promote gender ideology and remove related information from websites. The move has raised concerns about the suppression of important health information and the impact on vulnerable communities.
The Trump administration has removed references to LGBT health and information on certain vaccines from federal websites , including top public health agencies. This move follows a Wednesday memo instructing agencies to cease all 'programs that use taxpayer money to promote gender ideology' and remove related information from websites by Friday afternoon.
When asked by reporters on Friday if websites would be shut down to remove diversity-related content, he responded, 'If they want to scrub the websites, that's OK with me.' DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs aim to promote participation in workplaces by individuals from diverse backgrounds. Supporters argue that these programs address historical or ongoing discrimination and underrepresentation of certain groups, including racial minorities, while critics contend that such programs can be discriminatory in themselves. On Saturday, leading public health agencies appeared to have removed webpages discussing gender, sexually transmitted diseases, and LGBT health. Several web pages for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now display error messages. The agency's website contains a yellow banner message stating, 'CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders'. CDC webpages that previously contained such data on youth, transgender and LGBT health displayed 'page not found' messages on Saturday morning. The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) seems to have disappeared from its landing pages. This ongoing study focused on topics such as nutrition, mental health, physical activity, and sexual activity for high school students. Archived pages reveal that one aspect of the study included children who 'felt that they were ever treated badly or unfairly because they are or people think they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning'. A screenshot of a Centers for Disease Control page that once led to research about LGBTQ youth reveals the removal of this crucial information. A page for recommended vaccines was temporarily unavailable but returned on Saturday without mention of the monkeypox (mpox) vaccine, according to the Washington Post. The mpox vaccine is recommended for, among other individuals, gay and bisexual men, as well as people who identify as transgender or nonbinary, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the umbrella agency that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and other US public health agencies. HHS also took down pages relating to diversity and inclusion. A key page from the agency's Office of Civil Rights no longer appears to contain any information. The website for the office remains, but a reader who wishes to click on the 'All changes to the HHS website and HHS division websites are in accordance with President Trump's January 20 Executive Orders,' HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement. USAID staff received an email stating the agency was 'conducting a thorough review of all USAID-funded initiatives, offices, and positions to eliminate any that promote or reflect gender ideology,' CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported. They were directed to comply with an executive order dedicated to 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women)'. It instructed them to take down 'all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology'. The memo also instructed staff to 'review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns'. Earlier this week, a supplementary grant from the National Institutes of Health that helped research institutions to hire staff from diverse backgrounds abruptly expired on January 24, 2025, long before its scheduled closure. The CDC did not respond to the BBC's request for comment about the grant's early expiration. A few days later, an employee at HHS told the BBC he feared programs such as this grant would be eliminated due to Trump's executive orders. 'Getting rid of that may hold a lot of weight in impacting the future of the scientific workforce,' the employee said of the grant's elimination. 'But it might be years or decades before we know how that will negatively impact science.' Meanwhile, the Trump administration has fired a group of prosecutors assigned to investigate the US Capitol riot, and also demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same inquiries, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner
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