Government’s web pages about gender disappear after Trump -Action: NPR

President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, January 30.

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This week, the Trump Administration directed all federal agencies to remove information from their sites regarding “gender ideology.” On Friday, a flurry of reports indicated that accurate things happened.

In one Wednesday MemoOffice of Personal Management Acting Director Charles Ezell instructed agencies to comply with Friday at 1 p.m. 17 with one Executive Order It says its goal is “to defend women from extremity in gender ideology.”

That memo made “steps to end federal financing of gender ideology.” Among these was the instruction to “take down all outward media (sites, social media accounts, etc.) that occur or promote gender ideology.”

From late Friday trying to reach the Census Bureau’s 2020 results Page returned a message that the part of the site was down for maintenance. Similarly its side of Sexual orientation and gender identity Was down with other pages, including information on these topics.

The examples spread on social media with academics, journalists and activists who noticed that basic information had disappeared from government sites. CDCs HIV monitoring data disappeared, as noted by Aaron RichtermanA scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. Corresponding CDC’s youth risk study Data are no longer available, as KFF’s Cynthia Cox pointed out.

While “Gender Ideology” is sharply defined, Trump and other opponents of transient rights have used the expression to argue against the idea that people can identify with a gender that does not match the gender they were assigned at birth.

In fact, the executive order calls it a “false claim that men can identify as and thus become women and vice versa.”

Many people who support transient rights are against using the term “gender ideology”, which means that being a transgender is a belief system as opposed to an identity. Almost 2 million Americans Identify as Trans or transgender, according to the vote in 2023 from the KFF and the Washington Post.

This week’s memo “Gender ideology” was not the only order from the Trump administration to remove information from sites. IN Another memo Implementation of one Executive Order Ezell had aimed to “end radical and wasting government’s DEI programs,” Azell instructed to “take down all outward media (sites, social media accounts, etc.) at DEIA offices.” Deia stands for “diversity, justice, inclusion and accessibility” in this order.

When asked Friday about the removal of “Dei” information from sites, Trump said, “It doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me. Dei would have destroyed our country and now it’s dead.”

The “defending women” executive order and Ezell’s resulting memo goes far beyond police information on government sites. Ezell also instructed agencies to “review all agency programs, contracts and grants and end anyone who promotes or involves gender ideology” and also to ensure that forms ask for respondents “” sex “and not their” gender. ”

The memo also calls on agencies to ensure that “intimate spaces” are “designated by biological sex and not gender identity”, which may mean that transnry and non -binary employees will be limited in which bathrooms they use. NPR reached clarity on which space would be considered “intimate space” and received no answer.