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Via press release from the ACLU:
Doctors from Harvard Medical School today challenged the removal of their articles from the Patient Safety Network (PSNet), a government-run website for doctors and medical researchers to share information about medical errors, misdiagnoses, and patient outcomes. The papers were removed as part of a takedown of information that the government contends promotes “gender ideology,” including any articles containing certain prohibited terms, including “LGBTQ” and “trans[gender].”
“Here in Massachusetts, we deeply understand that academic research and knowledge-sharing is essential to our economy and for the health care of all people,” said Rachel Davidson, staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts. “Our clients were given an impossible choice between removing their article from PSNet entirely or censoring parts of it. This is an intentional erasure of knowledge, an attack on the integrity of scientific research, and an affront to the public’s need for accurate, adequate health information.”
The suit argues that the government violated the First Amendment by imposing a viewpoint-based and unreasonable restriction on the doctors’ participation in a forum the government has opened to private speakers. It also argues that the government violated the Administrative Procedure Act, including by removing articles without a reasoned basis. OPM, AHRQ, and HHS are named in the suit.
Read the full press release.
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration for removing medical research by private doctors from a government website.
Our clients are Harvard Medical School doctors whose work was removed because of the words “LGBTQ” and “transgender.”
The government cannot censor science.
— ACLU (@aclu.org) March 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Two Harvard medical school professors claim in a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration that their research was pulled from a public government website because it referred to the LGBTQ community.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) March 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM