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The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nations top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases including fetus and transgender in any official documents being prepared for next years budget.
Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based and science-based.
In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of science-based or evidence-based, the suggested phrase is CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes, the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.
The question of how to address such issues as sexual orientation, gender identity and abortion rights all of which received significant visibility under the Obama administration has surfaced repeatedly in federal agencies since President Trump took office. Several key departments including Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, as well as Justice, Education, and Housing and Urban Development have changed some federal policies and how they collect government information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
In March, for example, HHS dropped questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in two surveys of elderly people.
HHS has also removed information about LGBT Americans from its website. The departments Administration for Children and Families, for example, archived a page that outlined federal services that are available for LGBT people and their families, including how they can adopt and receive help if they are the victims of sex trafficking.
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