{"id":32802,"date":"2025-02-07T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T22:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/cdc-staff-told-to-remove-terms-like-non-binary-they-them-pregnant-people-from-public-health-material\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T22:03:23","slug":"cdc-staff-told-to-remove-terms-like-non-binary-they-them-pregnant-people-from-public-health-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/cdc-staff-told-to-remove-terms-like-non-binary-they-them-pregnant-people-from-public-health-material\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC staff told to remove terms like &#8216;non-binary,&#8217; &#8216;they\/them,&#8217; &#8216;pregnant people&#8217; from public health material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a> have been told to remove words frequently associated with progressive gender ideology from research manuscripts that they intend to publish.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a leaked internal email sent out to CDC staff, obtained by the newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/insidemedicine.substack.com\/p\/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction?s=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Medicine,<\/a> showed a list of terms and phrases that must be removed from scientific manuscripts produced by the agency&#8217;s researchers and intended for publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those terms included: &#8220;gender,&#8221; &#8220;transgender,&#8221; &#8220;pregnant person,&#8221; &#8220;pregnant people,&#8221; &#8220;LGBT,&#8221; &#8220;transsexual,&#8221; &#8220;non-binary,&#8221; &#8220;nonbinary,&#8221; &#8220;assigned male at birth,&#8221; &#8220;assigned female at birth,&#8221; &#8220;biologically male&#8221; and &#8220;biologically female.&#8221; According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/01\/31\/cdc-website-gender-lgbtq-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post,<\/a> the list includes about 20 terms. They indicated that the directive also ordered the removal of any use of &#8220;they\/them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/lgbt-activists-mobilize-challenge-trumps-extreme-gender-ideology-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LGBT ACTIVISTS MOBILIZE TO CHALLENGE TRUMP&#8217;S \u2018EXTREME GENDER IDEOLOGY\u2019 EXECUTIVE ORDERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rule affects manuscripts under review, as well as those accepted but not yet published, no matter whether they are intended for internal circulation only or circulation outside the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>A CDC spokesperson told Fox News Digital that &#8220;All changes to HHS and HHS division websites\/manuscripts are in accordance with President Trump\u2019s January 20 Executive Orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After taking office last month, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> signed a slew of Day One executive orders, including one that attempts to root out &#8220;gender ideology extremism&#8221; and restore &#8220;biological truth&#8221; to the federal government. Meanwhile, in line with that order, the Trump administration&#8217;s Office of Personnel Management issued a memo a little over a week later calling on all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal agencies<\/a> to &#8220;take prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/feds-spent-millions-studying-trans-menstruation-strengthening-gay-rights-balkans-database-reveals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FEDS SPENT MILLIONS STUDYING TRANS MENSTRUATION, STRENGTHENING GAY RIGHTS IN THE BALKANS, DATABASE REVEALS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the terms, CDC web pages titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthy-youth\/lgbtq-youth\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth | Adolescent and School Health&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchhstp\/director-letters\/national-transgender-hiv-testing-day-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;April 18 is National Transgender HIV Testing Day&#8221;<\/a> have also been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The removal of the terms may make it hard to read surveys and research that utilizes them as demographic identifiers, The Post reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are trying to optimize society, you can\u2019t just pretend some people aren\u2019t in it,&#8221; executive director of the National LGBTQI+ Cancer Network, Scout, who legally goes by only one name, told The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been told to remove words frequently associated with progressive gender ideology from research manuscripts that they intend to publish. 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