However, more common are examples of web pages that mention LGBTQ people who have been completely eliminated. The eliminated content includes a website on the use of tobacco between LGBTQ people on the Centers for Nursing and Prevention website, information about a LGBTQ+ work group in the Department of Justice, a page dedicated to the LGBTQ program of the department of the department of the department of the department of Commerce and resources to avoid discrimination of sexual orientation on the website of the Department of Labor.
The CDCs also eliminated their youth risk behavior survey, which monitors the health behaviors of students throughout the country and included some of the only federal data on LGBTQ young people. The upper part of the website for the survey results says: “The CDC website is being modified to comply with the executive orders of President Trump.”
Trump signed a variety of executive orders aimed at transgender rights and “gender ideology”, including an executive order that declares that the United States will recognize only two sexes, men and women, and that they are assigned to birth and immutable. The order orders federal agencies to eliminate “all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other internal and external messages that promote or instill gender ideology”, which according to the order “replaces the biological category of sex with a Always changing self -evaluated gender identity concept, allowing the false statement that men can identify as and thus become women and vice versa, and require that all institutions of society consider this false statement as true. ” “The ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex” damage women “depriving their dignity, security and well -being.”
When the White House was asked to comment on the changes and the elimination of web pages that mention the LGBTQ community, a spokesman for the staff management office shared a memorandum that directed all federal agencies last week for Implement Trump’s “gender ideology” order. The memorandum ordered the agencies that “demolish all external media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that instill or promote gender ideology” at 5 pm on Friday.
In a statement the day after Trump signed the order and shortly after the information related to LGBTQ began to eliminate itself from the White House website, the LGBTQ Glaad media defense group accused Trump of censorship.
“President Trump claims to be a strong defender of freedom of expression, however, he is clearly committed to censors A statement. “This action demonstrates the target objective of the Trump administration to make it as difficult as possible for LGBTQ Americans to find federal resources or look reflected under its presidency. Unfortunately for him, our community is more visible than ever; And this pathetic attempt to reduce and eliminate us will be without success again. ”
Trump has also signed the executive orders that impede that trans people are enlist and serve in the army and prohibit that federal funds go to the care related to the transition for minors or schools that “promote gender ideology.”
