US health agencies scrubbing websites to remove ‘gender ideology’

The efforts are intended to comply with a two-page memo issued by the Office of Personnel Management connected January 29 sent to each heads and acting heads of departments and agencies outlining steps that agencies indispensable instrumentality by 5 p.m. ET connected January 31.

It specifies that each bureau indispensable extremity each programs that beforehand oregon bespeak sex ideology arsenic outlined successful the enforcement bid by President Donald Trump requiring national agencies to “recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.”

“There’s a batch of enactment going connected astatine the bureau to comply,” said the root who was not authorized to talk publicly, adding that the CDC is “in the process of taking down thing connected the website that doesn’t enactment this enforcement order.”

At the National Institutes of Health, a elder worker this week urged bureau leaders to garbage to instrumentality the Trump administration’s guidance successful an email to acting NIH Director Matthew Memoli and different apical officials this week seen by Reuters.

The employee, Nate Brought, manager of the NIH enforcement office, said Trump’s orders ran contrary to years of NIH probe and findings astir sexuality and gender.

“By complying with these orders, we volition beryllium denigrating the contributions made to the NIH ngo by trans and intersex members of our staff, and the contributions of trans and intersex citizens to our society,” helium wrote. “These policies volition pb to intelligence wellness crises oregon worse for tens of thousands of Americans who lend productively to our communities.”

Neither NIH nor the Department of Health and Human Services instantly responded to a petition for comment.