Trump officials ask CDC, FDA to use gender notice on restored websites

The Trump administration has directed the nation’s premier health agencies to place a notice harshly condemning “gender ideology” on agency webpages that a federal judge ordered be restored online this week.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were asked to place a notice on “any restored pages that were taken down due to their content promoting gender ideology,” according to an email sent from an official at the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday evening. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the email.

As of Friday morning, the notice is included on the two webpages the FDA was directed to restore, which provide guidance for researchers on how to increase enrollment of females in clinical trials and interpret sex-specific data, as well as improving participation of underrepresented populations in such trials.

“Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female,” the notice reads. “The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.”

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Source: The Washington Post, 14 February 2025