According to the New York Times, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were ordered to pull out any pending research submitted to publications that mention the terms “pregnant people,” “transgender,” “LGBT,” and “immigrant.”
In an email viewed by The New York Times, the CDC’s associate director for science, Sam Posner, directed employees to remove research papers “that promote or inculcate gender ideology or that have been flagged as at risk for such.” In the memo, Posner reportedly provided language to use to send to journals when requesting the removal: “Consistent with the President’s Executive Order titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, I am removing myself as a coauthor from this submission.”
