The Federal and State Health Authorities and Staff scrambled on Friday, ended a program that promoted “gender ideology”, and complied the Trump administration's 5:00 pm deadline to withdraw documents and other media.
Federal government workers had already been ordered to stop diversity, fairness, and inclusion initiatives, scrub the public's efforts, and arrange employees involved in administrative leave.
Compliance has taken various forms in the Federal Health Organization, veteran hospitals, local and state and health categories. At the Disease Control Center, employees in a hurry to delete conditions such as transgender, immigration, LGBT, and “pregnant people.”
According to a management email reviewed by The New York Times, some VA hospital employees were unacceptable to LGBTQ flags and other displays.
According to the federal government's command, the bathroom of the health agency is secured by a single “biological gender”, and the word “gender” is to be deleted from an agency format. Ta.
The instructions are 180 -degree pivot for health scientists and clinicians who have been working for many years to integrate diversity and fairness, including gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals into research and clinical services.
Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of the Pandemic Center at the University of Brown University, states:
“I'm worried here that this attempt to make this headline is that we have published a very bold and wide range of statements,” she said.
The turbulence was following two administrative orders issued by President Trump on January 20.
The other is to “defend women from the extreme of general ideology and restore biological truth to the federal government,” and the government to make various gender expressions more comprehensive, including scientific research. The effort has been closed.
In both cases, the Federal Government Bureau continued with a memo explaining how to perform changes and how to issue a deadline. The memo affected a wide range of programs at all levels of the government, but the details were sparse.
Some of the CDC employees, for example, were troubled with orders to delete gender mentions from research databases, for example, to allow other government rules to prohibit the operation of scientific data.
The web page of the agency deleted as part of President Trump's “Defense Women” Initiative includes other pages on gender -based violence, support for young LGBTQ, and racism in health. 。
Atlas Plus, a CDC that holds 20 -year monitoring data for HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis B and other diseases, is missing.
Also, the page of the CDC youth risk behavior monitoring system has been deleted. This investigates young people on dangerous activities such as drinking, using drugs, smoking, and dangerous sexual behavior, which could lead to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
The survey recently reported the high percentage of depression between teenagers and lesbians, gay, and bisexual youth.
Some orders from the agency administrator, which were sent to the veteran hospital by e -mail and reviewed by the Times, ordered the termination of the Accessibility Program and other diversity and comprehensive initiatives.
The hospital treats military veterans, and most of them are disabled.
According to an unproofed memo obtained by the New York Times, the CDC itself, on Wednesday, ends the diversity of “traces, remnants, or renamed works” on Wednesday. I did. “
According to the e -mail reviewed by The New York Times, the diversity and wrapping program of the federal government has been disbanded, and scientific work groups are ordered to suspend their activities.
Public health experts warned that DEI prohibition affects not only the diversity of staffing, but also the health stock program aimed at unwilling groups.
For example, some programs can help elderly people in low -income people access vaccines and color communities, which are increasing in diabetes.
Including gender as a research factor in research can help identify groups that have the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis, which reached the highest level in 50 years.
“Health equity is basically all public health,” said Dr. Nuzzo.
“This work, these data and these research are really important for us to answer the essential issues of public health.
None of this seems to be the goal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for President Trump and the Secretary of Welfare, who focused on chronic diseases. Most chronic conditions affect disadvantages in socially disadvantaged people, including Americans in rural areas and colored races.
Some state health administrators interpret that DEI commands are applying only for staffing and employment. They told the staff that the health program that performs outreach to unprecedented groups, including ethnic groups and minorities of races, will not be affected.
However, one employee of the State HIV prevention program stated that it was difficult to solve them.
“I don't know how this will affect our work if it is not allowed to talk about the individual, which is a transgender because it is a large population working in HIV.” The employee I asked for said. Fear of retaliation.
Some VA hospitals have warned employees that they prohibit “pride symbols, such as flags, straps, signature blocks, etc.”. 。
Some asked the supervisor if they needed to remove the book in their office. Dr. Nuzzo said, “If they really need a scalpel, they may be going to take sledge hammer,” said the ambiguity of the Federal Directors' anxiety.
In one VA facility, the administrator has deleted all computer folders and files. The term “DEI” has been deleted as a name. “We have given them access to the file and they have disappeared from our folders,” said some employees who are talking about anonymously.
“I don't know what to say,” said the employee. “Everyone is walking on the eggshell.”
The agency has been instructed to turn off the software function that encourages the user to enter the signature. The CDC has also been deleted from the internal directory.
The administration also threatened the order, “threatening employees who are not notifying their colleagues who are trying to disguise these programs using coded languages or inaccurate languages.
Already, contractors who are working on Health Equity have been released. One year ago, his role, which supported such a project, was fired at least one worker in a long -standing contract.
Some CDC officials have begun to censor materials discussing the fairness of health even before Mr. Trump took office.
Fear of their shuts down, they have begun to delete content from the website and reduce surveys from projects, which cost about $ 400,000.
However, other projects are particularly impossible to refer to fair or gender, because they are particularly intended to reduce the health gaps of chronic diseases.
“I don't think we need to stop what our department is working on,” said a CDC employee who wanted anonymous or retaliation.
Some science groups archive data related to HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, birth, death, education, environment, and housing, in anticipation that the Trump administration could aim for a specific problem. 。
On Friday, hundreds of scientists gathered for “DataThon” and tried to save websites related to Health Equity.
Harvard University's social epidemic and a co -leader of this effort, Nancy Creator, stated:
“But the problem has not disappeared and the suffering gets worse,” she said.
Ellen Barry reported.
