From The Washington Post:
The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s 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 year’s budget.Related reading
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.”
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I suspect those words will turn up in reports written by the scientists in abundance/where at all possible.
I just changed my blog-description line.
Oh, how I miss George Carlin.
Trans people need to think about leaving the US before it's too late. But, of course, due to discrimination, few have a route out. They're poor or often don't have educational qualifications, so other countries won't accept them as migrants or foreign students - if they had enough money to move.
And the CDC is now forbidden from tracking the increasing wave of hate crimes or even doing anything about HIV prevention in a vulnerable community - not that you can call it that.
These frightening times are getting much worse.
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