CDC cleans STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump Gender Order

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 cleansing of all mentions of “gender” from federal sites Commissioned by the Trump administration this week.

“Doctors in any community in America trust these treatment guidelines to know what tests to run, to know what antibiotic will work on, what infection, and how to avoid worsening of antibiotic resistance,” said David C. Harvey, leader of the national coalition of STD directors, in a statement to CBS News.

Several federal health officials said the agency’s staff had run Friday to comply with a deadline from 1 p.m. 17.00 Sat off The Office of Personnel Management, to complete President Trump’s Executive Order That the federal government now only recognizes “two genders, male and female.”

Web pages that could not be immediately reformulated to remove all mentions of gender, such as those aimed at transient people, were taken down to be reworked.

“People get sick. And especially in cases as congenital Syphilis Where you can’t lose a day for treatment, babies will die, ”Harvey said.

Some changes were smaller and stored web pages online as a transformation of information About Zika -virus From saying “pregnant person” to “pregnant woman” instead.

Others have resulted in turning off key parts of the agency’s website. Data from CDC’s monitoring system for youth risk behavior, a nationwide study of high school students on mental health, drug abuse and violence, was also wiped out from the website.

The last round of The results of the study Had highlighted the deterioration of mental health and violence affecting LGBTQ gymnasium students.

Also drawn offline was much of the CDC’s adult immunization guidance, referring to transnry and non -binary people as part of carefully designed recommendations for some vaccines adopted by a panel of the agency’s external advisers.

Other health agencies were also affected by the rewrites.

Data published by Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Tracking Progress to meet federal goals such as reducing the bullying of transking students and limiting the proportion of gay high school students using illegal drugs were deleted.

Messages and guidance from Food and Drug Administration, which mentions gender, was either rewritten to swap after referrals to sex or scrubbed, as a now-slaughtered 2023 Move of the agency intended to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to donate blood.

Nonprofit organizations, hospitals and health departments ordered to comply

Letters obtained by CBS News sent to nonprofit organizations and state and local health departments receiving federal health dollars also left some beneficiaries confused.

A letter suggested that all their staff and communication would also be forced to comply as a condition of continuing to receive federal funds.

Another purposeful mentions of Diversity, equity and inclusionWhen they said that what resembles federal rules, they were now also obliged to “immediately complete, to the maximum extent, all programs, staff, activities or contracts that promote” these ideas “at all levels and activity, regardless your location or citizenship of employees or contracts ”supported by the funds.

Some hospitals also said this week they are moving to suspend medicine and procedures for young people seeking gender -affirming care, after a Executive Order Tuesday signed by President Trump to limit the procedures and prescriptions of gender crossings in minors.

“Children’s national is obliged to provide compassionate and extensive care in accordance with the law. As a result, we currently hold to all puberty blockers and hormone treatment recurring to trans -cube youth patients,” said Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC in a declaration Thursday.

The hospital did not already perform gender transition surgery for minors, a spokesman said. They did not comment on how many patients would be affected by the break.

Not all children’s hospitals say they stop gender -affirming care. Statements released by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Michigan Health and Children’s Hospital of Chicago said they still assessed the effect of the order.

“Our team will continue to advocate access to medically needed care, which is based on science and compassion for the patient families we are so privileged to serve,” said a spokesman for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago in a declaration.

The Trump administration this week also took web pages that outlined federal civil rights guidance on gender-affirming care of young people, which effectively ends a bit administration position that had criticized attempts to limit “this potentially life-saving care.”