“It was very much, ‘Are you serious? Are you kidding?’ ”

December 16, 2017 7:34 AM

The Trump administration has informed the CDC that they are no longer allowed to use certain words in official budgetary documents. The words are: “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
posted by Huck500 (3 comments total)

"this", "administration", "is", "just", "straight", "up", "disgusting"
posted by Golem XIV at 7:40 AM on December 16, 2017

So much for the freedom of *beeep*
posted by Namlit at 7:41 AM on December 16, 2017

This is Very Very Doubleplusungood for the trans community. Also in the article:

The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention is working on ways to prevent HIV among transgender people and reduce health disparities.

HHS has also removed information about LGBT Americans from its website. The department’s Administration for Children and Families, for example, archived a page that outlined federal services that are available for LGBT people and their families, including how they can adopt and receive help if they are the victims of sex trafficking.

Several key departments — including Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, as well as Justice, Education, and Housing and Urban Development — have changed some federal policies and how they collect government information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

I'll get on my GET YOUR PASSPORT RIGHT FUCKING NOW soapbox again because surely it's a just a matter of time before they change the rules. Currently you don't need to have surgery to get the correct gender on your passport. Either they'll roll that back, or they'll ban people from changing their gender altogether.
posted by AFABulous at 7:42 AM on December 16, 2017 [1 favorite]