Staff at politicized CDC melt down over four words banned by Trump

Gender ideologues’ devotion to The Science™ has many government employees throwing fits as President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore “Biological Truth” is making some terms off-limits.

The torrent of actions taken upon the president’s return to the White House has included a number of moves against the leftist zeitgeist, including the sacred rainbow cow. As officials embark on fulfilling Trump’s mandates, some at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are blowing their top over terms “flagged as at risk” like “LGBT” and “transgender.”

“The information about transgender health being stripped from government websites is absolutely unbelievable,” former acting director of the CDC Dr. Richard Besser told the New York Times. “It’s hard to know where to start to talk about just how offensive this is, this attempt by the government to erase people from society.”

In a memo from the agency’s associate director for science, Sam Posner, researchers were told to remove mentions or references to: gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male and biologically female.”

“Immigrant” was also included among taboo terms as Posner told researchers to remove papers “that promote or inculcate gender ideology or that have been flagged as at risk for such.”

To facilitate the change, the associate director suggested researchers inform publications, “Consistent with the President’s Executive Order titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, I am removing myself as a coauthor from this submission.”

At the time of this post, a banner at the top of the CDC website informs, “CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.”

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“By complying with these orders, we will be denigrating the contributions made to the NIH mission by trans and intersex members of our staff,” griped Director of the National Institutes of Health Executive Office Nate Brought to Reuters, “and the contributions of trans and intersex citizens in our society.”

“These policies will lead to mental health crises or worse for tens of thousands of Americans who contribute productively to our communities,” he went on as some data became temporarily unavailable amid the website changes.

Likewise, World Health Organization (WHO) Center on Global Health Law Director Larry Gostin sounded off to the Times, “It’s important to stress that scientific expression is at the core of First Amendment freedoms, as vital to the Constitution as artistic and political speech.”

“The White House directive is positively Orwellian,” he argued.

More important to stress was how on Trump’s first day in office he issued an executive order withdrawing from the WHO, specifically citing “the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic…and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”

Further action has included a memo from acting Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink placed an “immediate pause” on issuing announcements, guidance, regulations, press releases, and more, as well as items meant to be published in the Federal Register.

Additionally, Trump has ordered federal employees at a number of agencies, including the CDC, to remove pronouns from their email signatures.

Kevin Haggerty

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