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There are few other areas of healthcare where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behavior,
she wrote
We don’t really have a map or situational awareness of what is going on, and so that would potentially delay responses to any emerging health issues,
Blackstock said
If people are not able to get information in order to be able to protect themselves, it’s just going to make matters even worse,
Blackstock said
Understanding that landscape is incredibly important for how we proceed,
Hardeman saidIf you’re removing information about the groups at highest risk, then that information is incomplete. It’s actually potentially misinformation.”
Blackstock notedThere was only one page that was up, a few days ago, that was about HIV. Every single [other] HIV page was down,
said Blackstock
This absence or erasure of really vital information is going to have a really harmful effect on many of these communities,
said Oni Blackstock, a primary care and HIV doctor and the founder and executive director of Health JusticeIs this still accurate? Is there data missing that’s going to prevent us from drawing valid conclusions?”
Blackstock askedThe public deserves to understand what’s happening, whether it’s bird flu or maternal mortality,
said Rachel Hardeman, a professor and director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the University of MinnesotaProviders can’t reference it so that we can take evidence-based, informed care of our patients.”
Blackstock said, addingCDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.”
A note at the top of all webpages for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now readsHow do we honor the lives lost if we’re just going to move on and not even collect that data?”
she asked
This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female."
President Donald Trump said during his inaugural speechThe incoming administration is trying to divide our communities in the hope that we forget what makes us strong. But we refuse to back down or be intimidated. We are not going anywhere. And we will fight back against these harmful provisions with everything we've got."
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson in a statement
I am very proud that the Department of State will be the first federal government agency to offer the "X" gender marker on an identity document. The Department of State is committed to promoting the freedom, dignity and equality of all people – including transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming persons around the world."
Rena Bitter, the then-Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, said in 2022Agencies are no longer going to promote gender ideology through communication forms and other messages,
a Trump administration official told reporters at the time, adding