The centers for disease control and prevention took recommendations offline about how doctors should treat sexually transmitted infections and vaccinate adults on Friday, as part of a radical purge of all “gender” mentions of federal websites Ordered by the Trump administration this week.
“Doctors in all United States communities trust these treatment guidelines to know what tests to perform, to know which antibiotic will work on what infection and how to avoid worsening of antibiotics resistance,” said David C. Harvey, Chief of the National Coalition of the National Coalition of the National Coalition. ETS Directors, in a statement to CBS News.
Multiple federal health officials said the agency staff had been running on Friday to meet a deadline of 5 pm save The Personnel Management Office, to implement President Trump Executive order That the federal government now only recognizes “two sexes, men and women.”
The web pages that could not be re -written again to eliminate all gender mentions, such as those aimed at transgender people, were removed to be reworking.
“People will get sick. And especially in cases like congenital syphilis Where you can’t miss a day to treat, babies will die, “said Harvey.
Some changes were lower and maintained online web pages, such as information writing About the Zika virus to say “pregnant person” to “pregnant woman” instead.
Others have resulted in gartering key parts of the agency’s website. The data of the CDC Youth Behavior Surveillance System, a National Survey of Secondary Health Students, substance and violence abuse, were also eliminated from the website.
The last round of Survey results He had highlighted the worsening of mental health and violence that affect LGBTQ high school students.
The adult immunization guide of the CDCs was also disconnected, which referred to transgender and non -binary people as part of carefully prepared recommendations for some vaccines approved by an external advisors panel of the agency.
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Other health agencies were also affected by rewriting.
Data published by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion The monitoring of progress to meet federal objectives, such as reducing the intimidation of transgender students and stopping the proportion of homosexual high school students who use illegal drugs.
The ads and the orientation of the food and medicines administration that mention the genre were re -written to change for references to sex or rub, as a now eliminated 2023 Movement For the agency that had intended to facilitate homosexual and bisexual men to donate blood.
Non -profit organizations, hospitals and health departments to meet
The letters obtained by CBS News sent to non -profit organizations and state and local health departments that received federal health dollars also left some winners of confused subsidies.
A letter suggested that all their staff and communications would also be forced to comply with the new radical rules of the Trump administration that prohibit the genre of all their activities, such as leaving the mention of pronouns of email firms and eliminating the genre of Its websites as a condition of continuing to receive federal funds.
Other mentions of Diversity, equity and inclusionSaying that in a similar way to federal rules, they were now also required that “they end immediately, to the maximum extent, all programs, personnel, activities or contracts that promote” those ideas “at all levels and activities, regardless of their location or citizenship of employees or contracts “backed by funds.
Some hospitals also said this week that they move to suspend medicines and procedures for young people looking for gender attention, after a Executive order Signed on Tuesday by President Trump to stop procedures and recipes for gender transitions in minors.
“Children’s National is committed to providing compassionate and integral care according to the law. As a result, we are currently stopping all puberty blockers and hormonal therapy recipes for transgender young patients,” said the National Children’s Hospital in Washington , Dc in a statement Thursday.
The hospital no longer performed gender transition surgery for minors, said a spokesman. They did not comment how many patients would be affected by the pause.
Not all children’s hospitals say they are stopping the attention that gender affirms. Declarations published by Children’s hospital in Philadelphia, the Chicago Health and Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan, said they were still evaluating the impact of the order.
“Our team will continue to advocate access to medically necessary care, based on science and compassion for patient families who have the privilege of serving,” said a spokesman for the Children’s Hospital of Ann and Robert H. Lurie of Chicago In a statement.
The Trump administration this week also eliminated the web pages that describe the Federal Civil Rights orientation on the attention that the gender for young .
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