In March of this year, two months after the inauguration of the 45th. president of the Unites States, the Department of Health and Human Services dropped questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in two surveys of elderly people (which must surely explain why I wasn’t included in either one of the surveys).
Shortly after the new administration took over the West Wing of the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services removed all information about LGBT Americans from its website. That’s right…deleted…gone…erased.
And now the words transgender and diversity are two of seven words no longer allowed at the Center for Disease Control according to a recent administration rule. The other prohibited words include vulnerable, fetus, evidence-based, science-based and entitlement.
Seriously.
In the spirit of bipartisanship, I decided to create my own list of seven forbidden actions for the West Wing inhabitants in 2018:
prejudice
discrimination
knee-jerk reactions
selfishness
alternative facts
early a.m. tweeting
maniacal nuclear threats
I lost my holiday spirit with this one, but I promise to retrieve it. Until then…
Stay tuned.
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8 responses to “maybe if we don’t talk about them, they’ll just disappear”
It is a world gone mad….how do we get ourselves out of this hole the government keeps digging?
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It starts with our votes…
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I’ve written grant applications for CDC grant funding. The big one was for HIV testing targeting the transgender community. I wonder what that Request for Proposal is going to look like now that they can’t say “transgender.”
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Hm. Harry, I fear for that grant application. Sadly, I might add. It’s a world gone mad.
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I’d like to ban them from all words, all the time.
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Seriously. I’m with you, Bob, and appreciate you as well. You are one of my favorite bloggers – and certainly one of the most informed. Bless your heart.
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When will people wake up?
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I would like to know, Susanne. At least the black women in Alabama woke up with a loud resounding roar this week. Bless them all.
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