The Trump administration has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to remove information and data related to LGBTQ+ rights, HIV, and adolescent health from its websites.
At the direction of the Trump administration, the federal Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies are purging its websites of information and data on a broad array of topics — from adolescent health to LGBTQ+ rights to HIV . Information on the HHS Office for Civil Rights outlining the rights of LGBTQ+ people in health care settings was also gone as of Friday. The website of the National Institutes of Health's Office for Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office was inaccessible.
The changes at the CDC and NIH are examples of a broad push by the Trump administration on gender issues under an executive order titled 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.' That order directs agencies throughout the government to stop offering 'gender identity' as a choice on government forms and to end funding of 'gender ideology.' Gone missing was also an interactive tool from CDC with surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs and TB. Also gone missing: a page with basic information about \The removal of HIV- and LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies is deeply concerning and creates a dangerous gap in scientific information and data to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks,' the Infectious Disease Society of America said in a statement. 'Access to this information is crucial for infectious diseases and HIV health care professionals who care for people with HIV and members of the LGBTQ community and is critical to efforts to end the HIV epidemic. This is especially important as diseases such as HIV, mpox, sexually transmitted infections and other illnesses threaten public health and impact the entire population.' Pages related to the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health, which administers the program, were also unavailable. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System tracks key metrics on nutrition, physical activity, tobacco and drug use, sexual behavior and other areas. The program was created 35 years ago and includes a national survey that researchers rely on to measure how behaviors influence health and design prevention measures. \The CDC did not respond to a request for comment on why the website is offline and whether the action is temporary. However, a person with knowledge of the decision says agency staff had to take down the website — which includes data on many other dimensions of health — to comply with the executive order. The order says agencies 'should take prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology.' The order also says agencies must take 'down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology.' The deadline for action is 5 p.m. Friday. The CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System asked students about 'transgender identity' for the first time. The survey found that 3% of high school students self-identified as transgender and an additional 2% were 'unsure.' But the removal of the website and accompanying data has left researchers wondering what's to become of the program itself. But is this larger than just the website being down? Are they stopping the data collection? Are they stopping the reporting?' Russell says much of the data about the crisis in youth mental health — alarming increases in rates of adolescents reporting depression or self-harm behaviors like suicidality — come from this survey
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