Trump administration adds anti-trans notices to restored websites
President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered federal agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add disclaimers railing against “gender ideology” to pages restored by a recent court order, The Washington Post reported. The notice reads:
Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59 PM on February 11, 2025. 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 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.
Portions of the notice that appear on federal websites are identical to Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology extremism,” which denies the existence of transgender and intersex people.
The sites with the notice include pages that had been taken down in a frenzied effort to comply with the executive order, which has had the effect of removing references to transgender people from government websites — including from documents on LGBTQ history. The websites were restored earlier this week after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring them back online.
The right-wing attacks on transgender people — including children — have been widespread in the weeks since Trump’s inauguration. The new administration is attempting to deny trans people medical care, block “X” markers on passports, and ban trans people from women’s sports, as well as erase the existence of trans people altogether by threatening to withhold funding for organizations that reference queer and transgender people. The Trump administration’s goal appears to be to push transgender people to the margins of society and to threaten researchers, nonprofits, medical providers, and others who work with and serve trans adults and kids.
Trump’s various executive orders attacking gender identity as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts have had cascading effects across science. Some researchers are combing through documents and censoring terms that could draw the ire of the Trump administration: words like “women,” “diverse,” and “excluded.”