Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to take down webpages that related to gender identity and sexual orientation.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted infections and vaccinate adults Friday, as part of a sweeping purge of all mentions of "gender" from federal websites ordered by the Trump administration this week.

Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.

An employee at the CDC spoke with Gizmodo about the changes, which they described as “creepy” and “unprecedented,” even compared to Trump’s first term from 2017-2021. The employee, who wished to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak with the media, said there was now an “aggressive tone behind everything.”

References to gender identity and information on some vaccines disappeared from federal websites as officials acted on a Trump administration order to scrub them from communications and programs. The administration instructed agencies in a Jan.

ending federal legal recognition of transgender people, and restricting gender marker changes on federal documents. Major national medical associations, including the American Academy of ...