404 Media reports:
HHS is wasting workers’ time and taxpayer dollars on “a witch hunt to find any content deemed ‘bad.” Specifically, people who work on HHS websites are spending days scanning those sites and any documents they share in search of a list terms like “gay,” “sexuality,” “non-binary,” “inclusion,” “queer,” and “gender,” potentially so they could be later removed to comply with Trump’s executive orders attacking DEI in the federal government.
“The most obvious issue to me about this list is that it’s being done in the name of ‘efficiency and saving money.’ It is not efficient to take engineers off their work to scan old content for any keywords this new administration hates. The bigotry is astounding,” the source who is familiar with the work and who asked to be anonymous because they were not permitted to speak to the press, told me.
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Yesterday HHS issued new “guidance” effectively declaring that transgender people simply do not exist.
Among the dozen agencies under the Health and Human Services umbrella: CDC, NIH, FDA, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office for Civil Rights, Agency for Health Care Research.