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White House Web Pages a Federal Judge Ordered Back Up Are Still Down
J.D. Vance, now the vice president of the United States, complained about censorship in his debate against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Is Vance being hypocritical? The Trump administration where Vance is second-in-command has censored. They’ve done that at least in removing LGBTQ+ information — including queer health information — since filling the executive branch last month.
And that’s certainly not the only issue at hand here.
U.S. District Judge John Bates ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Department of Health and Human Services to restore data and web pages, as CBS News reported. They’d been removed to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology.” (More on that below.) Yet still, “other pages— including a tool that assesses social factors that make communities vulnerable in the event of a disaster — remain offline,” as NPR reported. And that’s aside from other federal agency web pages not run by those three agencies still being down.
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Also, the White House has been removing information about transgender & intersex folks.
And as NBC News reported, “the websites of several government agencies are lopping off the back half of the abbreviation or completely removing web pages that mention LGBTQ people.”
“More common, however,” NBC News added, “are examples of web pages mentioning LGBTQ people that have been completely removed. The removed content includes … information about an LGBTQ+ working group at the Justice Department … and resources about avoiding sexual orientation discrimination on the website of the Labor Department.” (The pages still being down should be able to be seen here and here.)
Further, I’m not progressive (as I’ve said before). For what it’s worth, I’ve seen a transgender woman wear a pro-life button. And another lady devoutly practice…
