Public health data have disappeared from websites, entire web pages have become empty and employees have erased the pronouns of email signatures on Friday while federal agencies rushed to comply with a directive linked to The order of President Donald Trump Rolling protections for transgender people.
The staff management office has directed the agency to undress “Gender ideology” Websites, contracts and emails in a service note sent Wednesday, with changes sentenced to 5 p.m. Friday. He also ordered agencies to dissolve employee resource groups, to terminate subsidies and contracts related to the issue, and to replace the term “gender” with “sex” on government forms.
Certain parts of the government’s websites have appeared with the message “The page you are looking for has not been found.” Some pages have disappeared and came back intermittently.
Questioned by Friday journalists about the reports that government websites were closed to eliminate the mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion, Trump said that he knew nothing about this, but that he would approve such a decision.
“I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me,” said Trump, adding that he campaigned to promise such initiatives.
Lots of public health information has been deleted Disease control and prevention centers Website: contraception guide; an information sheet on HIV and transgender people; Lessons on the creation of supporting schools for support for transgender and non -binary children; Details on the national day of transgender HIV screening; And a set of government surveys showing transgender students with depression, drug use, intimidation and other higher problems.
The elimination of health resources creates dangerous gaps in scientific information, said sickness experts. The Infectious Diseases Society of America, a medical association, has published a statement denounced the deletion of information on HIV and transgender people. Access is “essential to efforts to end the HIV epidemic,” said the leaders of the organization.
On Friday, a web page of the office of prisons entitled “Gender” was re -formidated “Sex Sex”. Ventilation of transgender detainees in federal prisons has no longer been included.
Friday, the State Department deleted the option to select “X” as sex on passport requests for non -binary candidates. He also replaced the word “genre” of the descriptor with the word “sex”. However, the online passport request form was no longer available on Friday evening, simply linking a message indicating that the system “underwent maintenance”.
All the employees of the State Department have received the order to withdraw the specific pronouns for the kind of their email signatures. The directive, the head of actor of the management office, said that this was necessary to comply with Trump’s executive decrees and that the ministry also removed all references to “gender ideology” of websites and internal documents.
“All employees are required to delete all gender identification pronouns from email signature blocks before 5:00 pm today,” said Tibor Nagy’s order. “Your cooperation is essential because we sail together these changes.”
An official of the US Agency for International Development said that staff members should point out the use of the word “gender” in each thousands of award contracts. Warnings against sex -based discrimination are a standard language in each of these contracts. The manager spoke under the cover of anonymity for fear of reprisals, as part of a Trump administration prescription prohibiting members of the USAID staff to speak with people outside their agency.
The official said that staff are afraid that programs and jobs related to inclusion efforts, gender problems and specific problems for women are opposed and possibly targeted under Trump’s two decrees.
Certain pages of the census office and the National Park Service were also inaccessible or gave error messages.
Trump’s decree, signed on its first day of power, calls on the federal government to define sex as a man or a woman and that this is reflected in official documents such as passports and policies such as assignments federal in prison.
Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the soldiers to immediately stop recognizing the identity one day before the beginning of the History of the Blacks in February, affirming that such events “erude the camaraderie and threaten the execution of the mission ”.
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Mike Stobbe in New York and Amanda Seitz, Matthew Lee, Will Weissert and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed to this report.
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