Chlamydia Outbreak Warning Issued After Trump Removes STD Info
CDC) published a report in November showing that America has been suffering an "epidemic" of sexually transmitted diseases in recent years."The number of sexually transmitted infections [STIs] remains high in the United States, with more than 2.4 million reported in 2023," the report said.Newsweek sought email comment on Wednesday from the Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).President Donald Trump made a campaign pledge to fight trangender ideology in the federal government.On January 29, Trump's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a memorandum to all agencies titled "Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump's Executive Order Defending Women," ordering all federal agencies to "take down all outward facing media [websites, social media accounts, etc.] that inculcate or promote gender ideology," and "ensure that all applicable agency policies and documents, including forms, use the term 'sex' and not 'gender.'"In response to OPM's memorandum," the CDC and FDA removed large numbers of webpages and datasets that used the word "gender" instead of "sex."On February 4, the progressive group Doctors for America, which promotes "reproductive rights and coalition building" and "gender affirming care" filed an 18-page lawsuit seeking to stop the administration's removal of "a broad range of health-related data and other information used every day by health professionals to diagnose and treat patients and by researchers to advance public health."On February 11, Washington, D.C., federal Judge John Bates, a George W.
Bush appointee, agreed to impose a temporary restraining order on the OPM and ordered that any deleted webpages be restored.In so doing, Bates criticized the administration for interfering with the work of Chicago-based Dr.
