Trump censors transgender research now (+ more LGBTQ news)

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,” according to an email sent to CDC employees (see below).”

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CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material. Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
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CDC Orders Mass Retraction of Research Over ‘Forbidden Terms’ Affirming Transgender People

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