Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders threaten Americans’ health, experts say As certain terms are scrubbed from US health agency websites decades of vital data is vanishing, advocates warn.
After Donald Trump signed executive orders ordering for mentions of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities and other terms to be scrubbed from US health agency websites, experts say the implications for health and scientific research are vast.
There were also many public materials taken down of pertinent information about, for instance, health disparities for trans people, she said, which creates “a vacuum of information” with direct effects on individuals’ health behaviors.
“This absence or erasure of really vital information is going to have a really harmful effect on many of these communities,” said Oni Blackstock, a primary care and HIV doctor and the founder and executive director of Health Justice.
The orders were couched in terms of women’s safety and DEI (or diversity, equity and inclusion) policies, but in fact they work to undermine broad swathes of the American public: trans and intersex people, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, women, disabled people and more.
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