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CDC purge of forbidden words online creates real-world fear, says San Antonio advocate

Feb 4, 2025

New rules breed fear

Employees of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered over the weekend to retract any articles they might have under consideration for publication in medical or scientific journals until a Trump appointee can scour them for forbidden words, terms, and acronyms.


The offending terms include "gender," "transgender," "pregnant person," "LGBT," "non-binary," "assigned male at birth," "assigned female at birth," and several others


Read more at NPR.org

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