CDC Restores Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons Guidance Page

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A CDC page that gives guidance for the treatment of transgender and Gender Diverse persons was restored on Wednesday after a federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. health agencies to restore websites that they abruptly took offline. The CDC removed these pages in response to an executive order by President Donald Trump telling them to scrub websites of "gender ideology extremism," Reuters reports.

The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C. came in response to a Lawsuit by the medical advocacy group Doctors for America. The complaint stated that the sudden removal of websites by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration hampered doctors' and researchers' ability to fight disease.

Bates ordered all websites specifically identified by Doctors for America in its court filings be restored by 11:59 p.m. (0459 GMT) on Tuesday. He ordered the government to consult with the group to identify any other materials that doctors rely on and restore them by February 14.

As of Wednesday morning, the CDC has restored guidance for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases of Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons but other pages related to LGBT healthcare are still down and can only be viewed by searching the CDC archives.

National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Scrubs LGBT Children From Website

The headquarters of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., in 2024.- Nathan Howard Reuters

The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has removed all mention of LGBT Children From it's Website.

The non-profit was told this week by the DOJ to comply with Trump's Exceutive Anti-transgender Orders or lose federal funding. The NCMEC was also told that they would have to deadname transgender children in order to comply.

As first reported by Marisa Kabas on Bluesky:

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM

All of Trumps Anti-Trans Excutive Orders as 2/8/2025.

NMEC plans to comply with DOJ threats. This email was sent out Wednesday night to staff, but it noticeably doesn't mention anything specifically about LGBTQIA+ kids or DOJ, just general compliance with executive orders:

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM

A check of the Wayback Machine confirms that the NCMEC has deleted reports of Missing and Exploited Transgender, Lesbian, Bisexual children from its website.