Websites on HPV vaccinationsData on Habits of high school healthinformation on Programs to end violence Against women and girls: all began to disappear from government websites this week, while agencies rushed to comply with President Trump’s executive decree against “gender ideology”.
Federal agencies and departments received a deadline of 5 p.m. on Friday to implement an order Trump signed in the hours after taking office on January 20, forcing that the US government recognizes Only two sexes which are “not modifiable”.
A note Sent Wednesday to detailed agency chiefs a list of laundry tasks necessary to comply with the order. The list included a radical directive aimed at withdrawing all “documents, directives, orders, regulations, documents, forms, communications, declarations and plans”, as well as much more specific requests for modification of “sex” on “sex” on Government forms, deactivate all the prompts by e-mail that ask their users their pronouns and cancel all the resource groups of employees who “instill or promote gender ideology”.
The agencies have also received the order to suppress any “external media” which could be interpreted as promoting a vision of gender which no longer conforms to the policy of the American government.
Friday afternoon, the results of the research for the “genre” on the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a cemetery of dead links, many of which had been active days, or even hours earlier .
A page on health care Treatment guidelines For transgender people disappeared. So was a page on the value of the school Homosexual alliance clubs. Information on HIV and sexually transmitted diseases has disappeared.
The Department for Health and Human Services website has rubbed pages on stupid care And LGBTQ Rights +.
Several research databases have also disappeared, arousing an alarm among researchers. These include risky behavior monitoring system for young people, which uses biennial surveys to follow the consumption of tobacco and drugs, sexual activity, food choices and other things that could be able high school students.
CDC representatives did not respond to requests for comments on Friday. In his order, Trump said that such actions were intended to “defend the rights of women and protect freedom of conscience using clear and precise language and policies”.
Dr. Tina Tan, president of the infectious Diseases Society of America, and Dr. Colleen Kelley, president of HIV Medicine Assn., Denounced this decision in a joint declaration.
The abolition of health resources “is deeply worrying and creates a dangerous gap in information and scientific data to monitor and respond to epidemics of disease,” they wrote.
The researchers began to share warnings on social media several days ago, urging community members to make copies of federal health data before information is deleted from the CDC website.
Some have run to save CDC Social vulnerability index Data, that researchers use to identify communities that probably need additional help to recover from a natural disaster like a hurricane or an earthquake.
“If the country continues on this path, SVI for each county and the census will be as much as possible,” said air conditioning Becky Bollinger wrote On Bluesky.
Many people have noted that the deleted study data were collected with federal funds And that information should be accessible taxpayers. Researchers could go to court or file requests under the law on information, but it will take time and resources.
Some called him a modern equivalent to burning books. A person compared the movement to “The Torkhage of the Library in Alexandria” by Julius Caesar.
Others were concerned that action was a sign that the Trump administration would stop maintaining the databases disappeared in the future. Even if they are relaunched in the future, a four -year gap would undermine their research value.
Visitors to the government’s web pages noted other disturbances that did not seem immediately linked to the gender decree. THE home page Because the census office was offline on Friday for a certain time, and the Ministry of Agriculture was ordered to remove references to climate change, Politico reported.
