CDC webpages on sexual, gender identity, health equity removed

CNBC, sexual and gender identity, health equality and other issues related to disease control and prevention centers on the website of more than a dozen pages were taken.

According to an internal CDC E -mail displayed by CNBC, the CDC received a directive from the Health and Human Services Department that controls the agency until the end of September 19 to remove certain web pages.

Pages include sexually transmitted infections and additional information pages on healthy equality and asxuality and bisexuality for gay men and the other for disabled people. Some health equality advocates say that the abolition of such resources can create gaps in access to critical health information, especially for marginal groups, and weaken their efforts to encourage fair care.

“The abolition of critical materials from reliable government resources is carried by the health of patients and the public”, a spokesman. Lbgt pa caucusIn a statement, LGBTQ+ Health is an non -profit organization that encourages the equity.

“Eliminating resources related to gender identity does not eliminate the need, it only erodes confidence, creates confusion and puts patients at greater risk.” He said. “Clinicians and communities they serve rely on accessible, accurate and inclusive guidance to provide safe and effective care.”

E -Posta did not give details of why HHS directed CDC to remove pages or targets certain issues. However, the issues of some sources have been the targets of Trump for a long time. published a series of executive action This limited the rights of transgender and nonin non -nonin, and withdrew his efforts to increase diversity, equality and inclusion.

In a statement, an HHS spokesman said that “CDC continues to align websites with management priorities and executive orders”. CDC directed CNBC to HHS for a comment.

For the first time, the administration did not target health resources on federal agency websites.

Thousands of pages on websites for CDC and Food and Pharmaceutical Administration, among other agencies Suddenly pulled down President Donald Trump’s gender identity in federal policies and documents from the end of January under the executive order. A Federal Judge in February decisive HHS, CDC and FDA, to temporarily restore the public to the pages while proceeding.

The same judge ruled In July, the government ordered the collective abolition of health resources from federal sites and required them to review and restore the affected pages. Followed by decisionThe Trump administration reported to the court on September 19, most agencies had completed the restoration of pages, adapted to 185, and only 11 CDC pages are still being examined.– According to the court documents. It is not clear how many pages taken in this month are in the case.

Since September 19, it is unclear which pages still examine and the CDC released more pages on the same day after the decision.

There was more than a dozen E -Tablo that the agency had been removed from September 19th to the internal CDC E -mail. A separate electronic table compiled by the agency employees and displayed by CNBC contained an additional site that appeared offline.

CNBC confirmed that the following pages are now offline. The digital archive site Wayback Machine also shows that they are the last active. According to Wayback Machine, there were several pages online in early September, but it is unclear that the CDC officially released them all.

Some pages listed in the electronic table connected to the internal CDC E -mail are still online. This is a page Respiratory follows laboratory -approved hospitalization between children and adults associated with syncital virus.