Trump successfully plunges government into darkness as 8,000 DEI web pages stripped from internet

More than 8,000 web pages from crossed the authorities person been taken down arsenic President Donald Trump demands the national workforce comply with his new orders destroying diversity, gender and equality initiatives.

Many of the webpages contained accusation astir 'climate' initiatives oregon 'transgender' care. 

Trump's bid has seen web pages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Census Bureau, the Food and Drug Administration, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and galore much agencies spell dark, a New York Times analysis found. 

'CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders,' it says astatine the apical of 1 of its pages. 

'Sorry — we can't find that page,' reads 1 web leafage that is expected to outline LGBTQ veteran care. 

The pages look to beryllium related to Trump's enforcement order, which had a 5 p.m. Friday deadline,  to terminate immoderate programs that beforehand 'gender ideology.'

It's unclear if the pages volition beryllium returned with edits oregon person been permanently banished to the acheronian of the web.

For a clip connected Friday evening, the full Census.gov website returned an mistake message. Many pages person returned online but its leafage connected intersexual predisposition and sex individuality was inactive down.

The scrubs travel aft the Office of Personnel Management sent a two-page memo Wednesday demanding each heads of authorities agencies comply with measures to extremity diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

That memo laid retired 'steps to extremity national backing of sex ideology.' 

The included the bid to 'take down each outward facing media (websites, societal media accounts, etc.) that inculcate oregon beforehand sex ideology.' 

Trump besides ordered national employees to remove their pronouns from their email signatures. 

And helium required each national agencies to 'recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.'  

As portion of that order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio suspended passport applications that usage a gender-neutral marker specified arsenic 'X.'

Then-President Joe Biden changed the passport process successful a mode that allowed allowed nonbinary, intersex oregon gender-nonconforming radical to usage an X designation alternatively than antheral oregon female.

When asked Friday astir the removal of 'DEI' accusation from websites, Trump said, 'It doesn't dependable similar a atrocious thought to me. DEI would person ruined our country, and present it's dead.'

The president besides signed signed an enforcement bid aimed astatine restricting sex attraction for radical nether the property of 19.

He announced national enactment for specified attraction would extremity and helium called connected the Health and Human Services caput to 'take each due actions to extremity the chemic and surgical mutilation of children'.

The bid said it was referring to treatments including puberty blockers, hormones specified arsenic oestrogen oregon testosterone, arsenic good surgical procedures.

Many of Trump's orders are expected to beryllium challenged successful court.