Donald Trump's ban on "gender ideology" is forcing scientists to purge their published work
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Story by Greg Owen (5 Feb 2025)
The Trump administration's purge of "gender ideology" and DEI from the federal government has reached into America's laboratories with orders to strip language they describe as "forbidden terms" from scientists' published work.
At the National Science Foundation, an internal document obtained by The Washington Post ordered a review of grants and all research slated for publication to search for dozens of words, including "trauma," "barriers," "equity," and "excluded." The terms "historically" and "women" are flagged for censors' scrutiny.
Previously published work containing those terms is also under review and is ordered withdrawn if it runs afoul of the language ban.
In a remarkable overreach, scientists who merely receive NSF funding and don't work directly for the agency were put on notice to cease any activity that doesn't comply with the executive orders.
"In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) principles and frameworks or violates federal anti-discrimination laws," a message to NSF funding recipients said.
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, staff was ordered to scrub the health agency's website of some two dozen terms, including "gender," "transgender," "pregnant person," "pregnant people," "LGBT," "transsexual," "nonbinary," "assigned male at birth," "biologically male," "biologically female," and "he/she/they/them."
Modern day equivalent to nazi book burning.