Some government’s websites briefly darkened on Friday after federal agencies were told to comply with a White House order to eliminate a certain language related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
The pages for the Federal Aviation Administration, the Census Office and the Department of Justice were among those that were blank. FAA and the Department of Justice then were online again.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week that declared that only men and women should be recognized by the federal government. The Personnel Management Office (OPM) He distributed a memorandum, obtained by NBC News, ordering that all references from the federal government to “gender ideology” be eliminated at 5 in the afternoon on Friday.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the duration of changes on the website.
The centers for disease control and prevention said they eliminated their data portal to satisfy the orders of the Trump administration. The data page will eventually return, said the CDC.
A notice on the Data Home page said: “Data.cdc.gov is temporarily offline to comply with Executive Order 14168 Defend women from the extremism of gender ideology and restore biological truth to the federal government and the OPM notice dated January 29, 2025, ‘Initial guidance on the executive order of President Trump Defending women From the extremism of gender ideology and the restoration of biological truth to the federal government (defending women)“
“The website will resume operations once in compliance,” said the notice.
The Trump administration has already eliminated dozens of web pages in federal health agencies, including many in CDC, food and medicines administration and national health institutes.
The main page of HIV, a Center for HIV data, resources for medical care suppliers, pages on racial disparities, another on transgender people, homosexual and bisexual men, and information on ongoing youth risk behaviors and details about it ” End of the HIV epidemic “The plan was scrubbed on Friday.
Several web pages for the United States Agency for International Development were also reduced on Friday, responsible for administering abroad, distributing medicine abroad and helping to frustrate disease outbreaks.
At the same time, federal employees were working to comply with the orders that prohibit the support of Dei’s efforts within the army and civil agencies, including the elimination of resource groups and any celebration of cultural consciousness, according to Memos and Memos and Electronic emails.
The website of health and human reproductive services.
The CDC began to eliminate the content related to gender identity on Friday, according to a government employee. Apparently, HIV -related pages were trapped in that action.
An email on Wednesday by Charles Ezell, the interim director of the United States personnel management office, entitled “Defending women,” he told the subordinates not to promote the “gender ideology”, a term that usually be used by conservative groups to describe what they consider to “arouse” opinions about sex and gender.
Email said employees must recognize only two sexes, men and women, according to a memorandum, obtained by NBC News.
Among the pages of the CDCs that are missing on Friday were information on emergency contraception and contraception. Information about contraception and abortion pill, or Mifepristona tablets can still be found on the websites of the CDC through more detailed searches, but it has been made that these main pages of destination seem blank and can Stop users looking for more history of the issues.
In a December interview, Trump said “probably” would not restrict the availability of drug abortions during his second mandate in the White House.
